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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With almost 75 men entered, the University Tennis Tournament will start today to determine the summer champion of the whole school. Al Everts, Massachusetts State doubles champ and singles semi finalist, is the current favorite, but some California darkhoreses from the graduate schools and the rest of the Varsity tennis team may give him plenty of trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tournament to Begin This Afternoon For Summer School Tennis Champion | 7/22/1942 | See Source »

...said. "They spelled it with an i, I take it." Other quotes from Champ Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDREN: Meet the Champ | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Constantly, the Commandomen in their home stations champ for more and bigger action. Often they grow impatient while their superiors at Lord Louis' headquarters master the details which must precede a raid. New recruits constantly arrive at the highland camps; replacements must be continuous, because the Commandos' losses are inevitably high. But the veterans of the Lofotens and Boulogne, the few who returned from St. Nazaire, the new men waiting for their first raid-all have a constant refrain between jobs. "Why," they ask, "are we waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Why Are We Waiting? | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

When Toscanini left the Philharmonic in 1936, the orchestra was on close competing terms with Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony and Leopold Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra. Then the Philharmonic pinned its faith on short, swart John Barbirolli, who proved an able welterweight, but no world champ. The Philharmonic went into a slump. Attendance dropped from 86% of capacity to 81%. This season, partly to celebrate its centennial, partly to lift its dwindling prestige, the Philharmonic gave its subscribers a glittering stream of guest conductors. An erratic season, it produced some half-empty houses, but attendance rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reunion in Carnegie | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

Most of the University's leading swing soloists will complete this evening at 9 o'clock in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room for the title of Harvard Jazz Champ and for the chance to play an entire set with Andy Kirk's band at Dunster House on Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swingster Will Vie For Title of College | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

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