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...Krakauer Bros. The Wurlitzer, which will sell for less than $1,000, has two keyboards, one for piano strings, the other for any one of twelve electrically produced tones-tuba, cello, violin, flute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gadgets | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...into action," Lapowski said his wife thought him lazy because he liked to lay abed and every time Stevens went to mowing at "so ungodly an hour" all he heard was "Sam, Stevens is up and at work don't be so lazy ad infinitum. . . ." J. KRAKAUER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1933 | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...grabbed the beast by the horns, crouched, finally knelt in an effort to throw it. Failing, in desperation, he sank his teeth into the animal's nose, subdued it-which is not strange when we recall that ancient Sicilians and others challenged and fought by "ear biting.". . . J. KRAKAUER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...time he reached the quarter finals, Lo Wenching was the favorite to win the championship. Then he was beaten by one of the smallest players in the tournament, Abraham Krakauer of New York University. Krakauer, an unseeded player whose entry had been accepted only when someone else withdrew, played Coleman Clark of Chicago in the final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ping-Pong | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...investment banker with A. C. Allyn & Co. He used to be on the University of Chicago football team and was a tennis star in the Western Conference. The amazing speed and variety of his strokes - chops, drives, sidespins, baffling changes of pace - were too much for little Krakauer who stood well back from the table and played in a shrewd but more defensive style. When he began to make Clark miss his shots in the last game, it was too late to do any good. Clark had match & championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ping-Pong | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

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