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¶ Marjorie Sachs, 20 and lefthanded, daughter of Professor Paul Joseph Sachs of Harvard University: the Women's National Indoor Tennis Championship; at Brookline, Mass. Her name was not seeded in the draw. In the final against Sarah Palfrey, a more-to-be-feared player than her sister Mianne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

(3 of 4) to duel, swords or pistols as they pleased. In declining such a challenge M. de Casagnac, himself no mean swordsman, said: "M. Clemenceau is probably the greatest swordsman in the world. He is also lefthanded, which gives him a tremendous advantage. Then, too, he is a skilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clemenceau | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

A lean-faced Chicago University student and a round-faced Stanford one stepped to tennis fame at Brookline, Mass. They won the national doubles championship from a field which included the Tilden-Hunter team, oldtime champions, and the Van Ryn-Allison team, Wimbledon ("world's") champions. Round-faced John Hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doeg-Lott | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Died. Thomas Aloysius ("Tad") Dorgan, 52, of Great Neck, L. I., famed slangman. sport cartoonist, comic strip artist (Indoor Sports) of the Hearst newspapers, native of San Francisco; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Great Neck. In boyhood a buzz-saw ripped off most of "Tad's" right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

*Lefthanded Leonardo often rubbed his pigments with his curiously burned right thumb.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Duveen on da Vinci | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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