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Meanwhile, without attracting much attention, a compact, snaggle-toothed young man of 23 knocked over opponents like straw men, moved down to the finals with the loss of only one set. Bobby Riggs, ranked No. 2, had thrice won the Sea Bright Tournament, the first major grass-court tournament of the season. Bobby felt fine this year. His weight was up five pounds (to 140) and he had found out how to relax in the middle of a match without lowering his game. Tennis fans consider him the smartest, nearest thing to a veteran in the present crop of headliners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grass-Eaters | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

This week Missionary Sir Stafford saw his mission accomplished. In Moscow, after two audiences with Joseph Stalin, he sat down with Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, drafted and signed a 117-word compact between Britain and Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN-RUSSIA: Diplomats in Waiting | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...tremendous influx of skilled labor brought sharply to the attention of the Star the need for a bright, compact newspaper in modern tempo. At the same time . . . a modern motor-coach system . . . makes the old, large newspaper impractical to read while riding." Thus last week the Seattle Star gave its reason for becoming the Pacific Northwest's first tabloid. There were other reasons. They were something of a tabloid story in themselves-a story of mismanaged inheritance, hairbreadth financial escapes, family squabbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A New Star | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...department Thimann Wald and Dawson were all highly recommended and in general the quality of teaching was considered high. On the whole therefore Biology is a well organized compact field for those who have a fairly definite idea of what they want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION | 3/11/1941 | See Source »

...Axis last week was locked in struggle to death with an octopus: the British Empire. More than any week in the war the long tentacles of empire wrapped, the complexity wriggled, and the small eyes in the compact head stared defiance. In Libya the Axis fought against Australians, the tough colonists of empire (see p. 22), and against Free Frenchmen, auxiliary believers in empire (see p. 24). In Eritrea the Axis fought against imperial experience, which used religion as a weapon (see p. 22). In Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland, the Axis faced black men as well as white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: Octopus v. Axis | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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