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Anyone Can Win (alternate Tues. 9 p.m., CBS-TV) has as many electric score-keeping gimmicks as a pinball machine, and features Cartoonist Al Capp as a wisecracking moderator who fires questions at a guest panel, including a mystery guest disguised as one of Capp's comic-strip characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

Judoka consider themselves head & shoulders above ordinary grunt & groaners. One haughty English contestant spoke up for all judoka last week: "Judo is a clean, honest sport, an art, physical poetry, not a childish theatrical exhibition."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gentlemanly Jujitsu | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

This was not the first time the HGC went esoteric. Davison had objected to the prize song in 1921, and only agreed to enter the contest that year on the understanding that future prize songs should have every contestant's approval. For the next three years Harvard essentially chose the...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Glee Club First to Try Classical Music | 11/19/1952 | See Source »

Riding last on Democrat for the final go-'round of the course, Steinkraus needed a faultless ride to win. The crowd held its breath as the rider and his old campaigner approached the final obstacle. It was a 5-ft.-high white rail, where almost every other contestant had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Young & Old Campaigners | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

The final results seemed to prove that experience helps. Britain's eagle-faced Philip Wills, the oldest (52) pilot in the meet, soared off with the overall combined championship in a British-built Sky. Runner-Up Gerard Pierre of France, the meet's youngest (22) contestant, broke down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Birds' Apprentices | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

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