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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today one may buy a domestic set (two racquets, a bird and a net) for as little as $1.45; or one may pay $45 for an elegant imported British set (with Spanish-cork, French-kid-covered, Czecho-Slovakian-goose-quilled birds) like those used by Bette Davis, Pat O'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On the Lawn | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

> German exile Baron Gottfried von Cramm: the London Grass Courts tennis championship, No. 1 tune-up for this week's All-England tournament at Wimbledon (in which he is not entered); defeating Ghaus Mohammed of India in the final, 6-1, 6-3; for his first major tennis victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Cancer is a wildfire growth of rebel cells. Why and how normal cells suddenly go haywire and pile up into malignant tumors is the crucial research problem in cancer today. Last week, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Milwaukee, Dr. Herbert Eugene Schmitz and James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Blue | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

For a long time, they said, researchers have known that cancer cells consume an abnormally small amount of oxygen. To find out why, Drs. Davis and Schmitz probed an enormous rat tumor, discovered small pockets of poisonous cyanogen gas along its borders. They also confirmed the presence of cyanogen along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Blue | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Normally present in veins is a white chemical called indigo, which unites with the oxygen in fresh blood and turns blue.* Usually indigo flows with the blood stream to various organs, surrenders its oxygen and turns white again. But when fresh blood reaches tissues bloated with cyanogen, the indigo gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Blue | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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