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...before the final, the reconditioned Patty went through a four-hour doubles match, longest in Wimbledon history (one set went to 31-29). Patty looked like a limp rag afterward, and for the singles the smart money was on wiry, 22-year-old Sedgman, whose austere training habits include calisthenics and jogging around Wimbledon Common. Patty declined an invitation to a party at a West End nightclub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another Budge | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...Encounter, by Crawford Power. Crime & punishment in a rag-tag underworld teaches proud Father Cawder that "it's no part of a priest's business to pass on people like a judge"; an unsentimental first novel on a Graham Greene-ish theme (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Jul. 10, 1950 | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...Encounter, by Crawford Power. Crime & punishment in a rag-tag underworld teaches proud Father Cawder that "it's no part of a priest's business to pass on people like a judge"; an unsentimental first novel on a Graham Greene-ish theme (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Jun. 26, 1950 | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Encounter, by Crawford Power. Crime & punishment in a rag-tag underworld teaches proud Father Cawder that "it's no part of a priest's business to pass on people like a judge"; an unsentimental first novel on a Graham Greene-ish theme (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...prominent literary critic was in Cambridge trying to interest the people over at Brittle Hall in producing a play he had just written. Nothing over came of it, and had the playwright not been named Edmund Wilson, the general public might have been spared such a preposterous serving of rag-tag dialectics as his "The Little Blue Light...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: A Critic Turns Playwright | 5/26/1950 | See Source »

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