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For three years International House has been forced to pay the exorbitant rent of $1800 per year. This has not included the added expenses of steam heat, gas, or even drinking water. For the past three years Brooks House has come to its rescue by paying part of the yearly...
After a year of personal grooming (during which time Joe's terrific fists knocked out nearly every amateur he faced), Roxborough took his protege to Chicago, got wily Jack Blackburn, onetime Negro lightweight, to groom him for a professional ring career. "Joe didn't like to fight at...
The first plastic car was shown by Henry Ford in Dearborn last week. It was the product of his own long dream-that industry should use more farm crops-and of the chemical inventiveness of his protege, 32-year-old Robert Allen Boyer (TIME, Nov. 11). His plastic, 70% cellulose...
McNeill, who has won not a single tournament this year, has had a wretched season-about the worst for a No. 1 ranker since John Hope Doeg's memorable fadeout ten years ago. His game is more effective on grass than on clay, and he has been playing on...
Another early-bird in subcontracting was Engineer Morris Llewellyn Cooke, onetime protege of famed Frederick W. ("Speedy") Taylor. Cooke thinks that the defense effort should extend even to the home, points to the British "bits and pieces" system which spread aircraft production to 6,500 small shops. But neither Cooke...