Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ronald during a four-hour talk at Warm Springs. Mr. Roosevelt considers himself "in a poker game" on the debt negotiations, from which he hopes to win a pot of trade advantages for the U. S. in return for any cut in British obligations. Britain, no mean diplomatic poker player, began by ruling out all idea of economic concessions as the bargaining price for debt reductions...
Although Gledhill beat him 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 in the semi-finals next day, McGrath's victory over Vines proved definitely that he is not a freakish flash-in-the-pan. but the rarest thing in tennis-an utterly unorthodox player who is also a superlatively good one. Unable to give eye-witness reports of McGrath or to publish adequate photographs of him, U. S. tennis writers had to rely on descriptions by U. S. players who had seen him in action. Said Wilmer Allison: "McGrath will go right to the top with that funny backhand...
Robert Grant. III '34, top-ranking squash player on the Varsity squad, has advanced to the semi-finals in the tournament for the State Squash crown...
...mature atmosphere which, with its size (660 students), makes it resemble a small college. Of late its physical expansion has been remarkable. Out of the alumni spirit which Headmaster Stearns succeeded in evoking grew the benefactions of Andover's most notable latterday friend, Morgan Partner Thomas Cochran. Football player, classmate of Headmaster Stearns (1890), Benefactor Cochran was a leader in establishing a pool from which the school has received $11,000,000 in anonymous donations. He gave $1,000,000 for maintaining the trees and shrubs on Andover Hill; a fund for sabbaticals for the older teachers, the Addison...
...division of Bendix Aviation Corp. This year's selling feature, ''No-Draft Ventilation"-panels opening outward like a French window-was done independently by the Fisher Body division. GM's new "starterator"-self starter hitched to accelerator-was brought out by Malcolm Stevenson, oldtime polo player, and John Good. Another GM development for 1933 is a regulator to adjust the spark to the octane-content of gasoline, to ensure complete combustion, avert "knocking." For 1933 there is one development which may assume the importance of 1932's Free-Wheeling: Bendix and Studebaker say, "This...