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...rooms of the Varsity Club include recreation facilities such as ping-pong tables, magazines and newspapers. Living quarters are also available for the use of student members and graduates. The club thus serves as a social and recreational center for its members during their lifetime...
...term "tennis bums" was found for proficient young men who drifted from tournament to tournament, expenses paid. Top-flight players-Fred Perry, the ping-pong stylist, Ellsworth Vines, the lanky speed king, Don Budge, the redheaded wonder-turned pro and went on tour. Graceful girls in shorts refreshed the nation's sport pages. But top-flight competition could not survive World War II. "Somehow, anything seems more important at this point than tennis," said Ted Schroeder, before the tournament. The end of such pleasures was at hand...
...Fortress was weeks away by foot, and no plane had ever landed intentionally on the jagged, crevasse-slashed icecap. Parunak and Balchen, in a PBY flying boat, surveyed for six days, drop ping sleeping bags and food, never daring a landing. The stranded men watched and bit chapped lips. On the seventh day they saw the flying boat swoop low and disappear into the snow. Pilot Parunak had found a "dimple" of water filling an ice valley twelve miles away, had chanced a landing on this temporary lake. He set Balchen's rescue party ashore, then took off again...
...some evenings. They wander from the long, polished-floored, white-walled dining hall to the glassed-in porch furnished with comfortable wicker chairs and tables with magazines, and they read or write, play with a bulldog puppy named Winston Churchill or go out on the stone porch to play ping-pong with WAAFs. Some stroll out on the thick, ruglike lawn and bang croquet balls inexpertly through wickets, using golf terms because they do not know croquet nomenclature. Officers are flooded with local invitations. Many country Britons write, mentioning lovely gardens, usually ending up offering: "Make this your home while...
...keeping 14,000,000 members of the Junior Red Cross busy this summer collecting rubber, making floor lamps, ping-pong tables, ash trays, writing boards, sweaters and bathrobes for Army and Navy hospitals...