Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short speeches over the public address system John M. Atherton '40, team manager, will introduce Bill Bingham, Director of the H.A.A.; Dick Harlow; Captain Torbie Macdonald; and Tack Hardwick; ardent alumnus and football enthusiast...
Ninety per cent of the applicants were undergraduates. D. F. Hornig '40, a gliding enthusiast who constructed and flies his own ship and a National Scholar, ranked in the highest ten applicants. Rodman Gilder, Jr. '40, a member of the Glider Club who was entered in the National Soaring Contest last year, also ranked near the head of the list. The only other undergraduate in the first ten was L. G. Shepard '42, an M.I.T. transfer student...
...high-grade tennists, the colored race-especially its intelligentsia-has become extraordinarily tennis-conscious. In Negro colleges tennis is a major sport, exceeded in popularity only by football (50% of the students play tennis). Wealthy Negroes like Chicago's "Mother" Seames, a 70-year-old, 200-lb. tennis enthusiast, have built public courts for colored players. A. T. A. bigwigs have sent picked teams on barnstorming exhibition tours of U. S. cities. Result: a vastly improved crop of colored tennists...
Amusements. Thirteen Tory M.P.s hold directorships in companies operating cinemas, theatres, race tracks. Typical is Lieut. Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 55-year-old aviation enthusiast, a director of Greyhound Racing Association Trust Ltd., which owns tracks in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, paid 40% dividends last year...
...Enthusiast...