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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Maximum presidential term in most Catholic colleges is six years. Father O'Hara has served five and a half at Notre Dame, last week announced his resignation next month.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Consistory | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In 1928, when enough women took up the game to make competition exciting, Eleo (as she is known in swish circles) won the first national squash racquets championship for women. The following year, she held famed Professional Walter Kinsella, world's squash tennis champion from 1914-26, to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Old Girl | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Although Eleo Sears is the Grand Old Girl of squash, she can still tire out the average youngster. One morning last week, when she had no match scheduled, she played nine straight games with hard-hitting, 20-year-old Hope Knowles (who later won the tournament). Five games is enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Old Girl | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Next night through the false front of tall white columns erected to make Atlanta's Grand Theatre look like Tara (the O'Hara plantation in Gone With the Wind) streamed a privileged 2,031 who were going to see the picture whose title Hollywood had been abbreviating for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Selzniclc's Headache. Seventy-five years after the defeated Confederates trudged out of Atlanta singing Maryland, My Maryland, Producer David 0. Selznick received one of the most ecstatic business telegrams ever sent. It was sent by Kay (for Katherine) Brown, Eastern Story Editor of Selznick International Pictures. She said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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