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...When not on the courts, coaches Jack Barnaby and Dick Dorson spend most of their time in the shop, discussing strategy with their players or demonstrating a new slice backhand--to the imminent danger of life, limb, and the surrounding show-cases. Squad lists and tournament draw cards litter the room, for this is the indoor center of Harvard's tennis and squash activity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 1/8/1941 | See Source »

...where the civilian army encamped. In the Swiss Cottage tube station Londoners who now sleep there nightly on payment of the usual subway fee of three ha'pence (about 3?) last week began turning out their own typed news sheet, The Swiss Cottager. "There's too much litter at the all clear," said The Cottager. "Dustbins are provided! Please heed this request-our last and only territorial demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Civilians in Battle | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

London's animals lived as the people lived. Dogs & cats slept in shelters with their masters. Women rescued pups & kittens from bomb holes. A litter of rabbits was born in one hole, in the shadow of a delayed-action bomb. Many wild birds were killed. On one balcony were found a score of dead sparrows, huddled together with two mice in their midst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: People's Week | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...blown out of his bed into his garden, where he landed unhurt beside a bitch licking her litter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Battle of Britain | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Last week Willie Seabrook, 54, announced: "I have outgrown . . . the attitude of willing and romantic wonder which characterized some of my earlier books." Between the covers of Witchcraft he has swept the years' litter of a disordered desk: a theory, anecdotes, old magazine articles, scraps from history, leftover items from former books, newspaper clippings, remarks on extrasensory perception-everything, in fact, but his blotter and pencils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mumble-Jumble | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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