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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hawes, who won the 100-yard dash in the Harvard-Yale meet last year, was the only man to figure in two victories for Cambridge. Sutermeister, a champion pole vaulter at Harvard, received the baton from his former team-mate in the 880-yard relay. Hallowell, last year's American Intercollegiate mile champion, ran on the winning Oxford four mile team and also in the two mile relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE HARVARD STARS HELP CAMBRIDGE OUTRUN OXFORD | 1/4/1933 | See Source »

Unlike his patron's wife, Roxy, onetime Marine, is no champion of L'Art Moderne. Last month he and ancient Actor DeWolf Hopper made a puzzled inspection tour of the theatre. They stopped before a Herculean, brushed-aluminum nude figure by William Zorach entitled The Spirit of the Dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Rothafeller Center | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

Named Athlete-of-the-Year by 52 votes of U. S. sportswriters in an Associated Press poll was Golfer Gene Sarazen, U. S. and British Open champion. Second with 36 votes was Tennist Ellsworth Vines; third with 33, Sprinter Eddie Tolan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 26, 1932 | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...winner, has a well balanced team, and Yale and Dartmouth will have worthy aggregations, although Yale has already been defeated by West Point. After much selecting and pruning as a result of the Metropolitan League matches, the first team now includes M. L. Stark '33, Captain and present intercollegiate champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POWERFUL CHESS TEAM FACES INTERCOLLEGIATE MATCHES | 12/21/1932 | See Source »

...thief undertakes to be Polikai's manager. Soon the whole menage-Polikai, Nash, thief and shaver-go from Germany to the U. S., where the thief tries to prearrange Polikai's match for the championship and to mistreat Lora Nash. Polikai strangles the thief, throws the champion (Wladek Zbyszko, who also appears briefly in Uptown New York}, goes to jail. Actor Emil Jannings, of whom Wallace Beery is coming to be the U. S. equivalent, appeared in a picture called Variety which had a plot noticeably similar to that of Flesh. However, when Edmund Goulcling (who directed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 19, 1932 | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

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