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Coach Dick Dorson's '43 squad will be out to keep their undefeated slate clean. Jim Jenkins will play at the number one spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Tennis Team to Meet Cornell's Courtmen Tomorrow | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

Coach Dick Dorson's '43 tennis team also hit the win column yesterday, boating Tufts 8 to 1 at Jarvis Field. Taking every match except the number six singles, the Crimson was paced by J. B. Jonkins, T. E. Baker, G. Putnam, J. L. Clarke, and A. F. Hyde. Doubles winners were D. Daniels and Jonkins, T. Sears and Putnam, and A. Fordinand and W. Elson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis and Baseball Squads Victorious Yesterday | 5/7/1940 | See Source »

Gardner Mulloy beat Yardling coach Dick Dorson, 6-3, 7-5 in an exhibition contest, and the Harvard Freshmen blanked M.I.T. 9 to 0 earlier in the afternoon. The Crimson first-year netmen swept the nine points with the loss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miami Blanks Tennis Team As Gilkey, Burt Are Edged | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Dick Dorson is optimistic about the prospects of his Yardling team this spring. Jim Jenkins of Hawaii, Don Daniels of California, Aubrey Gould of Long Island, and Willard Nicholl of Brookline, appear most promising from the Class of 1943. They are expected to form the nucleus of a better than average freshman squad...

Author: By Harrison F. Lyman jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/23/1940 | See Source »

...illuminating introduction, Mr. Dorson makes a general discussion of "Frontier Humor and Legend." He treats with the exaggeration, verbal imagery, and other conventions of this frontier humor. Most significantly of all, he mentions the "unmistakable sameness to the varied versions of the American tall tale--It is the frontiersman's fun, his escape, his opportunity to create." The Crockett Almanacs are the true expression of the frontier; as such Mr. Dorson has done a valuable service in making this material accessible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/6/1940 | See Source »

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