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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeated this offer last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DEAL: Sham Battle? | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

Should Alekhine win the 30th and last game, he would tie the count, keep the title which he won eight years ago from Cuba's José R. Capablanca. Soon maneuvered out of position by Euwe, who attacked vigorously after a queen's gambit, Alekhine accepted his offer of a draw after 35 moves, rose from directly under Jacob Lyon's great canvas of The Riflemen of Capt. Jacob Pieterson Hooghkamer and Lieutenant Pieter van Rijn in the Military Casino (see cut), warmly congratulated his youthful successor. To the amateur winner went the championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chess Champion | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

Like a dentist trying to get his pliers into the mouth of a terrified, wriggling patient, Louis stalked around the ring watching the bobbing head and flailing elbows of Uzcudun. waiting for the moment when the Spaniard's jaw would offer a fleeting target. The moment finally arrived. The blow that ended the fight was the sort that a fat bartender lays into an objectionable drunk. Its progress was slow, inevitable, evident to all present. It laid Uzcudun flat on his back. It also opened his cheek, drove one of his teeth through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Incident in Schedule | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

Last September Mr. Littauer broached his offer to President Conant. Under the plan announced last week Mr. Littauer will give Harvard $2,000,000, one quarter for a building, the rest as endowment. To lay the groundwork for the school, Dr. Conant last week appointed a committee headed by a fellow university president, Princeton's Harold Willis Dodds, who was the first chairman of the undergraduate School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gloveman's Gift | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...told her it was dangerous. Last summer she took up tennis, horseback riding, mountain climbing-still without dropping a pound. Finally she went to Manhattan's Dr. Gerald Schuman who put her on the successful diet. It was a hard, quiet campaign. Said her attorney: "She refused an offer of $5,000 to endorse a reducing salt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big & Strong (Cont'd) | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

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