Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately after the boxing is over, the ring will be taken down and the Varsity and Freshman wrestling matches with Tufts will be run off simultaneously, starting at 3.15 o'clock, Despite the fact that Tufts won the New England, Intercollegiate Championship last year, Harvard is expected to show up well, boasting two undefeated grappiers, John C. Harvard is expected to show up well, boasting two undefeated grappiers, John C. Barkness 38 and William T. Glendinning...
...Depression the proudest of U. S. opera companies was the San Francisco organization which, though its seasons were brief, imported expensive singers, moved into a handsome new municipal auditorium and never gasped for money. Last autumn the San Francisco Opera peaked its artistic career by presenting Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen at a cost of some $80,000 (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week President Wallace M. Alexander of the Opera Association announced a deficit of $45,000, recommended a begging campaign for $50,000 to insure another season...
Adolf Hitler was by no means the only bigwig in Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week. His entourage included Air Minister Göring, Minister of Propaganda Goebbels, War Minister von Blomberg, Julius Streicher, Interior Minister Frick, Storm Troop Leader Lutze and almost every other important Nazi in Germany. Nonetheless, Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall of the New York Times, which last autumn gave the loudest bursts of publicity to Jeremiah T. Mahoney's efforts to have the U. S. withdraw from the 1936 Olympic Games (TIME, Nov. 4), felt justified in writing: ". . . Not the slightest evidence of religious, political or racial...
...sport which are the German equivalent of female glamour, promptly amazed the German cinema industry by commissioning her to make the official film of last summer's Nurnberg Party Congress in which she directed 800,000 men. When Herr Hitler's crony, Air Minister Göring, married Cinemactress Riefenstahl's crony, Actress Emmy Sonnemann, last year, Hitler was best man. That Realmleader Hitler, a confirmed celibate, has any such intentions concerning Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl no one suspects for a moment, but that he holds her in high esteem, entertains romantic admiration for her achievements...
...October, 1926 that I removed Wills from the ring game," mused the Squire, "the papers were as filled with him at the time as they are today with the Brown Bomber. I was pretty busy that year. With not six weeks between that fight and my go with George Godfrey, I had to be in pretty good shape. Godfrey and Wills were the leading contenders of the day, and when I eliminated them the way was clear for Dempsey to win the championships...