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...slugs another, the victim may enter a bill of complaint. The slugger is tried, either pleading his own case or being defended by a "lawyer." If guilty, he is sentenced to such chores as window cleaning or is exiled for several days from the B.B.R.'s library, ping-pong tables, sports, etc. "None of us ever gets in trouble with the law, except our own laws," said the B.B.R.'s report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...kind of variety show that was pulling them when Grauman left San Francisco 27 years ago. Headlined by Songstress Gertrude Niesen singing a batch of old songs, Highlights includes a trained-poodle act, harmonica players, highflying female aerialists, an impersonator, an oldtime clown, a Gay Nineties troupe, a ping-pong exhibition and two ventriloquists. Audiences, having the time of their fathers' lives, top it all off with some lusty community singing. Producer Grauman has given West Coast crowds the same kind of old time fun that Billy Rose has long since made profitable in the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Back Where He Started | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...club is limited in only one way. They have a wonderful clubroom, equipped with radios, victories, bridge tables, ping-pong tables and a coke-machine, but they cannot get in touch with the other communication officer's wives who are not as yet club members. It was explained that there were so many of these wives housed in many different parts of Cambridge that it was hard to look them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over 300 Navy Wives Form Club for Entertainment, Work | 2/19/1943 | See Source »

Built at a cost of only $2,342,000, the Hall will charge $4 a week per man for double rooms, $5.50 for singles, complete medical service, supervised recreation 24 hours a day (for all shifts), body-building classes, chess, checkers, ping-pong, horseshoe pitching, shuffleboard, movies in the gymnasium, use of the library and music room. The community center could get no materials for bowling alleys or pool tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Men Only | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY CLUB REMAINS OPEN | 10/28/1942 | See Source »

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