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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The one man in tennis who got Donald Budge's number was British Fred Perry. That was in 1934-36, when Budge was just out of the juniors and Perry was the world's No. 1 Amateur. Perry took the redhead over in the Pacific Coast final in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Record Time | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

> Tennist Wayne Sabin of Portland, Ore.: the national indoor singles championship, in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory ; a hint of Tennist Sabin's Davis Cup aims.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

It was in 1887 that Hearst took over his father's San Francisco Examiner, published Casey at the Bat. Nine years later he was in Manhattan, buying a stable of Pulitzer writers for his Journal, whooping it up for Bryan and the Cubans. A few months before Richard Harding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dusk at Santa Monica | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

In a little over a decade the Oregon Trail carried "the greatest migration in history since the Children of Israel went to the Promised Land." In fiction, the old Oregon Trail is still well plodded. But far fewer novels than pioneers have come through alive. Outstanding survivor was H. L...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oregon Fever | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Tailspin (Twentieth Century-Fox). In its protracted series of aviation pictures, the cinema has shown men fliers at home and abroad, over sea and land, dead and alive. It has rarely, however, shown women fliers. Tailspin rectifies this neglect with a band of young women aviators (Alice Faye, Constance Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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