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After winning four matches at, the expense of two Princeton representatives Stark played two games with W A Robertson '33, winning the first, which gave him the title and losing the second. Thus Robertson wound up in second place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STARK WINS CHESS TITLE AT INTERCOLLEGIATE MATCHES | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Trappers, hunters, government rangers tried constantly and unsuccessfully to kill Two Toes. Last fortnight he and his pack killed 14 goats in one day. Describing this as murder, Sheriff E. L. Cooper and Deputy Prosecuting Attorney James Robertson of Cross County, Ark., called for the best hounds in the state and a posse of huntsmen. They found the pack at dawn, separated Two Toes from his followers, cornered him at noon. Tired, fiery-eyed, froth-mouthed and snarling, he made his last stand in the hollow of the fallen log. He was taken to Memphis, Tenn., to spend the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Two Toes | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

This Man's Town depicts an unhappy New Year's eve as manifested near a lunch wagon in a red-light district. The author, Willard Robertson, appears as a good-natured, dirty-aproned counterman who shoves the mustard pot with unerring accuracy and can never remember in what town the significant episodes of his life occurred. Troubled by rumors that his girl is living loosely, he remarks: "I been layin' awake for weeks hopin' she'd say something in her sleep." During the evening a policeman is riddled with a machine gun at the wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

Playwright Robertson's melodrama follows the prevailing modes of theatrical violence; at times the stench of the underworld pervades his scenes, although he achieves not quite such horrid insinuations as those conveyed by the derbied, white-faced gunmen in Ernest Hemingway's short story classic of lunch-counters and racketeering, "The Killers." But Robertson's comedy is far above par; in his own chatter and the comments of a crowd of rubberneckers gathered about the murdered detective, his idiom bears comparison with that of the great Ring W. Lardner. When the play is not vicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...pound class: Lifrak defeated Robertson by decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRAMURAL WRESTLING AND FENCING BOUTS HELD | 3/22/1930 | See Source »

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