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Harvard's intercollegiate tennis interests will be represented by Don S. Willner '47 and Ed L. Slater '47, when they participate in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Championship Matches at Elizabeth, New Jersey, tomorrow through Sunday. Francisco "Pancho" Segura, the bow-legged Ecuadorian with the mean two-handed forehand, is the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Matches in New Jersey | 6/20/1944 | See Source »

One-Legged Leaper.JohannesAndries de Villiers. a 19-year-old sophomore at South Africa's Heidelberg Normal College, caused a sensation by high-jumping 5 ft. 7 in. in his first competitive try. He has no right leg. The handsome six-foot-one-incher started well back from the crossbar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 4-Efforts | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

Reported Dead. Adolf Wagner, 54, former Gauleiter of Bavaria, longtime crony and "other voice" of Adolf Hitler; in Munich. One-legged Wagner marched in the 1923 beer-hall Putsch, at Nürnberg party congresses delivered Hitler's proclamations in the blustering manner of his chief.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 1, 1944 | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

It was not so much that the Japanese troops had managed to fight, by their own peculiar brand of military osmosis, from the jungles of Burma onto the Manipur plain of India. It was that British troops seemed unable to fold them up now that they were on Indian soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Confidence on the Arakan Front | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

The new birds had arrived in the morning. On nearby Kwajalein, Jaluit, Maloelap, little bandy-legged men squinted at the Pacific sky and ran for cover. Even over the island of Eniwetok, furthest west of all the Marshalls, the carrier-based planes arrived (see map, p. 19). The atolls shuddered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Year of Attack | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

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