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Collapsible Francis Xavier Shields ran true to form and collapsed in the third round. Sidney Wood's erratic virtuosity survived four rounds. The semifinals drew the biggest crowd (8,000) in three years, and they cheered as madly as a mannerly tennis crowd could for Elwood Cooke's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Parker Returns | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

What made Grimm's Cubs run was not a roster-load of stars, but a compact team of workers, and a manager who knew how to get them to play together. Ham-fisted Manager Charlie ("The Banjo") Grimm looks like a man having fun. Standing in his third-base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Stretch | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Time passes happily enough in the gilt and plush saloon of silky-smooth, steel-fisted, honest Tony the Angel (George Raft). His devoted, carrot-topped singer Sally (Vivian Blaine) warbles her way through a series of top-notch new musical numbers, sweetened with the soft-shoe rhythms and barbershop harmonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Money Talks. Hardheaded, hard-fisted William L. Clayton made his first major pronouncement since he became Assistant Secretary of State in charge of U.S. economic policy. With a refreshing scorn for diplomatic doubletalk, he told the Latin Americans not to kid themselves about that policy in the postwar world.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Within the Family | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

The big political news in local circles is of course the class election which incidentally, was held amid scenes worthy of the most successful national convention ever run in Chicago or elsewhere. The results have Buck Ayars and Sam Wolf as co-chairmen of the class council; Bob "500" Grinaker...

Author: By Larry Hyde, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 1/9/1945 | See Source »

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