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Robert's mother, father, teachers and the manufacturer of his size 37 shoes said that he was "obedient," "bright," interested in Chinese checkers, ping-pong and girls, ate little more than an average man. He was also kind to little children. Dr. Louis Henry Behrens of St. Louis said that he was a normal boy except for his size and his "beautiful hands...
Musing on fighting words that could be and had been legally sent through the mails. General Hugh Samuel Johnson, himself no tyro at invective and abuse, suggested a few more: '"asymptote" ("a daisy of a word"), "parasang," "Cush-ping Dishpit." ("an evil sound and no meaning"), "yellow-bellied sap-sucker," "boat-bottomed grackel." "bottle-nosed puffin...
...Budge; his doubles partner, Gene Mako; and 20-year-old Robert Riggs, the Los Angeles "quickie" who in two years had jumped from the municipal tennis courts to next-to-top national billing. Unquestionably the second-best tennist in the U. S., Riggs had never before played anything but ping-pong with the Australians, had never matched his strokes against international tennists. He was the 1938 question mark...
Motor knocks are caused by a part of the fuel burning too rapidly, causing pressure and temperature changes characterized by a sharp "ping." Knocking quality is measured in octane, a 100% antiknock laboratory fluid. Most regular-grade automobile gas is about 70 octane. By polymerization Phillips Pete developed 100 octane gas-useless for modern automobiles but invaluable for airplane engines, which must get maximum efficiency and sudden "burst" response on take-off or emergencies. Howard Hughes used 100 octane gas provided by Standard Oil on part of his round-the-world flight, and it is increasingly in demand in military...
...want to be hot at ping-pong, start training on scotch and soda early in life," James M. Jacobson 1B, former national table tennis champion advised ping-pong hopefuls in an interview yesterday...