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...PONG! I sometimes sit back in a big chair and try to visualize what the land around our home was like a long time ago before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Alchemy of Time | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...table tennists are enraged when people call their pastime "Ping Pong," a trade name against which the U. S. Table Tennis Association, currently headed by Cartoonist Carl Zeisberg of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, revolted three years ago. Table Tennis Topics, official magazine of the Association, will not print the words ping pong, uses the scorn ful abbreviation ''P.P." when forced to refer to it. In Europe the game has more prestige than it enjoys in the U. S. Five thousand spectators watched Miss Aarons win the world's championship. Crowds almost as large cheered her in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ballroom Tennists | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...remark. She was born 26 years ago in Dobbs Ferry. N. Y. Last summer she married a Wall Streeter named James Daniel Thompson. Less attractive on the screen than behind footlights, she appeared in The President Vanishes and One-Way Ticket. Champagne is her favorite drink. She plays ping-pong and tennis, likes sail boats, thinks President Roosevelt is "doing all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...Ping pong, with 119 entries, is the most popular of the four activities, with bridge, chess and billiards following in that order. The contests will be run on the elimination basis, with the draw cards for the first round matches scheduled to be posted late today. It is expected that the tournaments will be concluded early in March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 200 YARDLINGS ENTER TOURNAMENTS AT UNION | 2/11/1936 | See Source »

...Ping Pong Most Popular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 200 YARDLINGS ENTER TOURNAMENTS AT UNION | 2/11/1936 | See Source »

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