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Next day George V took sporting consolation by mailing a challenge to his long-legged son-in-law, the Earl of Harewood. In Harewood's trophy room is a silver-mounted riding whip that is one of the most famed racing trophies in Britain. Originally "The Whip" was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: His Majesty Loses | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

Long-legged Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., last year's No. 1 U. S. tennist, last week ended a disastrous year of amateur tennis. Last June, just before he lost his Wimbledon title, Professional William T. Tilden offered him a $100,000 contract if he won. Made dizzy by having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pro Vines | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

Most of the 1.300 Republicans who packed into Chicago's Hamilton Club one afternoon last week to hear Indiana's James Eli Watson orate for two and one-half hours, thought they were listening to the first gun of a G.O.P. Midwest campaign against President Roosevelt. A few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Back to the Constitution | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

Many a time has Henry Ford used the White House as a national sounding board. The most famed occasion was in December 1929, when he rushed out of a conference with President Hoover to startle other tycoons with the announcement that he was raising wages in the face of Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rugged Individualism v. Robust Collectivism | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

Last week Pan American's long-legged technical adviser, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jaunting across the North Atlantic with his Wife Anne to survey a transoceanic route for Pan American, arrived in Copenhagen in an Eskimo fur coat. When cheering Danes nearly swamped his red-bodied, white-winged Lockheed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Pan American's Knot | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

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