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...where the ball is to be sent. We have used semaphores placed back of the player receiving the ball, the other fellow would follow the signals. . . . I do not allow more than 13 errors for any one set. . . . At Tulane we advocate and play basketball, we hit ten-nis balls with a golf stick from a cocoa mat on the tennis courts, we have the boxing instructor come down to the courts with boxing gloves and show the boys how to foot. We have the head football coach . . . we get the band out . . . we dance, keep moving and make every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Forest Hills | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...humming cable, is cut down himself. Hopelessly crippled, in ceaseless agony, he hangs on to suffering and life. Helen, who hated Thurso for his irreversible will, now loves him for it. In mercy she tries to put him out of his torment, but he will not allow her. After nis crazed brother hangs himself, Thurso gets Helen to cart him, sodden with pain, up to a sea promontory. There, in a quarry shed, she surprises him with kisses, cuts his throat. When the old mother comes up the hill she finds Helen poisoned, dying. She has eaten the contraceptive pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Harrowed Marrow | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Authoress Delmar's manuscript is not illuminated with metaphor or stylistic arabesques. She writes her tawdry tale as simply as she might speak it. Daughter of show folks, onetime actress, usher, typist, she enjoys playing chess and ten nis badly, is 24, a mother. She has lived not only in The Bronx, but in Belmar, N. J., Scarsdale, N. Y. She returns from a European trip in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Belmar's Delmar | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Five sets of championship ten-nis can make strong men sob., To play those five sets a man must have a sturdy heart; a stomach un-corroded with strong drink, a breath uncontaminated by cafe smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Germantown | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...died in 1915 leaving his publishing business and nis wealth in trust to his wife and daughter. His wife died in 1921. Last week his daughter died. According to the terms of his will the trust will now be administered by trustees named by the Presidents of the Universities of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. The trustees are to sell the Star within two years-to let his old paper go into a new orbit. Both before and after the sale the income of the trust will be used to furnish Kansas City with works and reproductions of works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Kansas City | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

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