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When Don Quixote tilted with the windmill, he did his best to focus his crumbling and erratic faculties on the proper maneuvering of his rusty shield, the inclination of his little lance, while his gigantic opponent, being without a brain, threshed its huge flails stupidly, and glared with idiotic rancor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Windmill | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

The Davis Cup doubles tryout promised, at first, to end in an impasse. First Tilden and Johnston defeated Richards and Williams; then Williams and Richards beat Johnston and Tilden. A selection committee admitted that it could find nothing to choose between the two teams. They began a deciding match. Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Aug. 17, 1925 | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

Canadian Open. Clinking their shooting irons, winking covertly at one another, a band of U. S. marauders crossed the Canadian border. At a given signal, the wooded hills and dales of the Lambton Country Club (Toronto, Ont.) rang with shots. Staunch Canadian pars dropped on all sides. In the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Aug. 10, 1925 | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

Sir Thomas is conceded to be one of the most erratic men alive, but of a friendly, pleasing disposition. In the position of pioneer and patron, he founded in 1907 the New Symphony Orchestra of which he was the conductor. He delved into the literature of music from which he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Beecham's Pills | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

One of the most erratic men alive. (Page 7, column 3.)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jul. 20, 1925 | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

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