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The "Reds" or team A, emerged victoriously from the practice clash, defeating the "Grays" 13-0. The purpose of this game was primarily to season the more inexperienced players, and although some fairly good football was displayel for so early in the season, the game clearly demonstrated that the squad...

Author: By Donald B. Straus, | Title: STUART BREAKS HIS COLLAR BONE AGAIN FOR SECOND YEAR | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

¶ Up from Port Washington, few minutes after the German plane had taxied to the ramp, droned the Pan American Clipper, off for England via Bermuda and the Azores. Having crossed the Atlantic by the northern route four times with precision, Captain Harold E. Gray and his pioneering crew were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: New Flights, New Fliers | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

One of Dr. Nininger's troubles is that most people who see a brilliant fireball are so excited that their subsequent testimony Is likely to be highly inaccurate. He himself has learned to sight meteor paths with extraordinary precision. On one occasion he sighted a fireball, marked out its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: AAAS in Denver | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

In contrast with similar presses of the past, such as the Black Sun Press conducted in Paris by the late Henry Grew ("Harry") Crosby, New Directions professes a social purpose. Editor Laughlin believes with I. A. Richards and most other competent critics that language, like a swimming pool, needs to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Workers | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

Four times a day for six days (five on Saturdays), a vast, synthetic sunburst explodes in the auditorium of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, world's biggest theatre. Sometimes the 75-piece Music Hall Symphony Orchestra plays almost prayerfully. Sometimes it lashes and groans through a hot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rockettes to Paris | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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