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The woman the California Athletic Commission considers capable of refereeing boxing matches is wiry, 45-year-old Belle Martell. No upstart, Belle Martell has been in the boxing business for ten years-ever since her husband. Art Martell, onetime Australian lightweight champion, hired an old barn near Los Angeles (on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Madame Referee | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

In Detroit, a new mayor-young Edward Jeffries-was elected with C.I.O. backing. In San Francisco, Mayor Angelo Rossi was re-elected over a New Deal Congressman who had the support of Harry Bridges and the C.I.O. Republican victories in Pennsylvania and New Jersey brought a bugle blast of triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: North, South, East, West | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Anybody in the U. S. with a $1.98 racquet and a pair of sneakers can find a lawn tennis game in season. But the four indoor ball-and-racquet games-court tennis, racquets, squash racquets and squash tennis-are still the exclusive pastimes of folks on the sunnier side of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Among the thirty-seven previous recipients of the Wendell scholarship are Samuel H. Cross '12, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard; Robert M. Green '02, Associate Professor of Applied Anatomy at Harvard; Seth T. Gane '07, Boston, secretary of the class of 1907 and former treasurer of Phi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBERT BOYD AWARDED WENDELL SCHOLARSHIP | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

WILLIAM JEFFRIES CHEWNING JR., O.C.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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