Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emerging victorious in the most gruelling match of the day, Alvah W. Sulloway '38 played a brilliant game to defeat Holmes in five sets. The outcome was in doubt until the very last game which was won by the Crimson representative 17-16.
Glidden (H) defeated Hollister 15-11, 15-12, 15-12; Gilder (H) defeated Davie 15-11, 15-12, 15-13; Captain E. Rotan Sargent (H) defeated Cookman 15-10, 13-15, 15-6, 15-7; Sulloway (H) defeated Holmes 15-12, 11-15, 18-16, 18-16, 8-15, 17...
Return of Hallowell and "H" Line, Minus Holmes
So now it appears that the famous "H" line of last year, with Ben Hallowell and Mike Hovenanian on the wings, and Al Dewey, who has shown startling improvement this year, in place of Holmes, might possibly stage a comeback to steal the show as it has done for the...
The lordly New York Times thought that it was "a dangerous precedent . . . not many steps from . . . Nazi practices." To Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes, seasoned Manhattan liberal, it was "an outrage." Director Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union declared he believed it was the first recorded case of...