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...ANGELES--John Bromwich, the ambidextrous Australian tennis star, jolted Bobby Riggs, Chicago, National Champion, from the Pacific Southwest tennis tournament today in a hard-fought 6-4, 6-4, 0-6, 6-3 match...
...hard-fought was the battle which raged in the country's largest medical community last week as five thousand New York County members of the State Medical Society prepared to vote on the bald question: "Do you . . . favor compulsory health insurance [in New York State]?" Exactly how members were divided no one ventured to predict, but certain it was that the opposition was well organized. For the last few months Manhattan physicians have been bombarded with propaganda drawn up by smart Publicist Edward Bernays, financed by anti-New Dealer Frank Gannett, who was quick to capitalize on the American...
Taking the lead in the first period, the Varsity polo team triumphed, 16-14 over a strong Princeton trio in a hard-fought match at the Tigers' Riding Hall Saturday...
Behind the two editions of Mein Kampf lay a publishing battle as hard-fought as many an early Hitler struggle. Having made scrupulous arrangements with the copyright holders, Reynal & Hitchcock applied for a temporary injunction against Stackpole, which claimed-among other things-that Hitler's Battle now belongs to the public domain. Last week a Federal judge in Manhattan denied the injunction. Both publishers meanwhile battled against time, with the result that both translations are hurried, occasionally inaccurate, always heavy and Germanic in idiom. The Stackpole version is somewhat easier reading, the Reynal & Hitchcock job has the advantage...
...first time in his high-speed career, squint-eyed "Wild Bill" Cummings, hell-for-leather winner of the 1934 Indianapolis automobile race and many another hard-fought meeting on the roaring road, got into a fix last week from which his sure hand and "heavy foot" could not extricate...