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...Jai-Alai League...
...solution is just as simple. Got some more. How? Well, recent magazine articles have brought to the attention of East Coast sports land a little-known, but very incrative enterprise which has been flourishing in Florida for many years. The name of the game is Jai-Alai (pronounced "Hie-lie"), the annual take is about one and one-half million dollars...
...years Harvard has led the nation in the educational field, and here is another chance for a "big first." And Cambridge is peculiarly well-suited for Jai-Alai, too. Ever since its erection in 1871 Memorial Hall has been a chronic problem--too big for a classroom, too small, for an indoor polo field. But it's perfect for a Jai-Alai fronton...
...idea that there was in me so great an urge to defend America . . . Communism meant little more than inter esting reading in the newspapers . . ." In India he met the enemy face to face-in Assam villages, where "even the small children gathered with their elders ... to chorus Jai to the Red flag"; in Hyderabad, where scarcely a day goes by without a Brahman being assassinated by the "Red revolutionists"; in Calcutta, where the hammer and sickle is nailed to a wall of the seamen's union; in the frontier city of Darjeeling, where Tibetan Communists "squeeze across the border...
Pierre, a Basque from St.-Jean-de-Luz, never held a court tennis racquet in his hand until he was 29. But by that time he had already served as a machine-gunner in the French army, was the French champion at the Basque games of chistera (jai alai), pala (jai alai with a small bat), and mains nues (handball). Within a year of taking up the 700-year-old game of court tennis, Pierre was champion of France, and five years later, in 1928, he was champion of the world...