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Exterminator liked racing. He was famed for carrying back-breaking poundage and running long distances (from behind) over any kind of track. For variation, Old Slim occasionally knocked off sprint champions at their own distance. Henry McDaniel, one of his seven trainers (in seven years of racing) said that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Galloping Hatraclc | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

With Davis Cup play due for resumption next summer, the championships were a useful inventory of U.S. talent. Talbert and Parker seem certain team choices. Their fellow-travelers may well be Champions Lieut. Ted Schroeder and Ensign Jack Kramer, if they are out of uniform by then. Such a foursome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Parker Returns | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Composers, athletes, billiard champions, authors, male cinema stars, philosophers, explorers, painters, scientists all achieve their top performances in their early thirties. This discouraging news for ambitious oldsters of 40 was reported by Psycholo gist Harvey C. Lehman of Ohio University in the current Scientific Monthly.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man's Prime | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Now that he has extended his work beyond the bounds of easel painting, Junyer's Manhattan studio looks more like a handyman's workshop than a painter's retreat. On a shelf rests his most prized possession, a scrapbook about the great Barcelona rugby team of 1924...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Joan Junyer | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

Pete Reilly is a natural-born innovator. He developed boxing champions Jack Delaney and Bat Battalino, became famed as the originator of the hot foot. Last week, with the atmosphere at many a ringside foul with monkey business (investigations were under way in California, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fresh Air for Fighters | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

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