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Exponent of the penholder grip and possessor of the fastest forehead in University table tennis, Jack I. Levin '40 won the Ping Pong championship yesterday at Barry Cowle's shop. Levin downed Pong stylist William W. Maish '40 in a bruising encounter which lasted over an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Table Tennis Championship Uncovers Two Yardlings of Outstanding Ability | 5/7/1937 | See Source »

Playing steadily and retrieving everything with dogged determination, Maish built up a lead of 11-2 in the final set. Here the fickle fortune of Pong turned in favor of Levin, whose wicked drives started clipping the edges of the table in unreturnable fashion. The final score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Table Tennis Championship Uncovers Two Yardlings of Outstanding Ability | 5/7/1937 | See Source »

Defeated by the Yardlings in their semi-final matches were Arthur K. Davies 1B, and Hubert H. Hauck '38. The former, who was downed 3-2 by Levin, played number one for the Tennis and Squash Team in the Greater Boston Table Tennis League. The team reached the final playoffs for the State B Championship, losing to the strong Cambridge Y.M.C.A. outfit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Table Tennis Championship Uncovers Two Yardlings of Outstanding Ability | 5/7/1937 | See Source »

...BUNCH - Meyer Levin - Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jews in Chicago | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...readers have lately had their work cut out for them. Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse, Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind have all been of approximately 1,000-page length. Last week Meyer Levin's The Old Bunch (964 pages) gave wrist-weary readers another hefty handful. Aside from actual weight, however, The Old Bunch has less in common with its swollen sisters than with such half-starved gutter rats as James Farrell's Studs Lonigan. Realism of the cheapest dye, Author Levin's tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jews in Chicago | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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