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What small chance the U. S. team then had left to win the Davis Cup back from France in this week's challenge round, stayed alive for one more day. George Lott and John Van Ryn played magnificently against Perry and George Patrick Hughes. With Lett's service dominating the play, they won their match 8-6, 6-4, 6-1. The first of the two singles matches that followed, between Austin and Allison, was close and exciting but Austin, against an opponent who seemed worn and overtrained, had speed enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Auteuil | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

...STRANGE CASE OF PETER THE LETT -Georges Simenon-Covici, Friede ($2). Inspector Maigret, mystified by duplex identity, spurred by sorrow, exhibits super-human activity, and bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Jun. 26, 1933 | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...penetrating, although much less strong than ultraviolet light from the sun. These waves now seem to be the "psychic auras" which spiritualists have vowed perceiving. Ghosts may be realities. Onions radiate comparatively powerful waves from their tips. Strongest human radiations proceed from the finger tips of the right hand. Lett finger tips also produce a comparatively powerful emanation. One woman complained that flowers withered at her touch. The tip of the nose is also a sending station of these waves. Just before Professor Rahn left Cornell for Syracuse he scanned some yeast cells. They promptly died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. in Syracuse | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...tenth game of the fourth set, Lott gave signs of having lost part of his temper, with good reason. He had had Vines 5-2; then Vines had won his own serve, broken through on Lett's, was winning his own again to tie the score. Lott beat his leg with his racket, lay on the court for a full minute after falling down. He dusted off his trousers with a towel, whacked a ball high into the grandstand when he missed a point, yelped when he missed another. When Vines won the tenth game, Lott, Vines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jubilee | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Helvenston '33, N. S. Henriquez '33, G. R. Holden '31, J. B. Howard '33, J. R. Howard '32, T. H. Jameson '33, R. H. Joseph '31, J. W. Kirkland '33, G. A. Larcon '33, H. L. Lash '32, H. C. Lehman '33, G. J. Lesnick '33, R. P. Lett '32, A. S. Levenson '32, Fred Lewis '32, E. A. Locke Jr. '32, Addison Love '33, W. A. Love '32, R. G. Luckey '31, A. G. Malkan '33, J. C. McGirr '32, T. F. McGuane Jr. '31, T. J. McKay Jr. '33, R. L. Mindlin '33, M. W. Powell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWIMMERS ARE WORKING TO DEVELOP ENDURANCE | 11/26/1930 | See Source »

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