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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recall what Browder and Darcy said," hedged Joseph Stalin. "Maybe they said something of that nature-but the Soviet people did not found the American Communist Party. The American Communist Party was created by Americans." By this weasel, Steel could be said to have won the match from Brass, but it was soon evident that, for all Censor Umansky's care, Publisher Howard had got deeply under Soviet skins...
What the Curtis Cup is to women golfers, the Wolfe-Noel Cup is to women squash racqueters: a prize for a U. S. v. England team match, played alternately in England and the U. S. British squash racquets differ considerably from squash racquets in the U. S. The court is wider, the ball slower. Games are nine points instead of 15. Consequently the U. S. team which won the cup last year in Boston was at a considerable disadvantage defending it last week in London. However, not even onlookers who had seen members of the U. S. side being beaten...
Squash racquets attracted Eleonora Sears's attention in 1918. Some male player brashly asked if she had ever tried her hand at the game. "No," she said, "but I could." She challenged the ablest male player in Rye, N. Y., won the match. After that, she pioneered by playing squash racquets on the courts of men's clubs in Boston. When a women's championship was finally arranged in 1928, she won it. Since then, she has remained one of the ablest players in the country...
Last week she had the misfortune to sprain her back. Consequently, in her match against Betty Knox, No. 5 on the British team, in the first round of the British Squash Racquets Championship, she won the first six points, then lost...
High man of the match was Parkman D. Howe, Jr. '37, who scored 277 out of a possible 300 points. Other Harvard contestants were Malcoim S. McN. Watts, Jr. '37, Philip A. Straus '37, George A. Matteson, Jr. '36, and Harry McC. Godden...