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...Jane Vaughn, fourth. In the men's singles, the judges' complicated scoring awarded the title to 196-lb. Ralph McCreath, Canadian champion, by .8 of a point over U. S. Champion Eugene Turner. > Silver-haired Willie Hoppe, 53-year-old, 45-year veteran cueman; the monthlong, round-robin tournament for the world's three-cushion billiard championship; for the second successive year; winning all but one of his 17 matches, after a tardy start because of pneumonia; at Bensinger's billiard parlors, Chicago...
During Christmas vacation he was one of the leaders in the sending of two round-robin telegrams to President Roosevelt. These message urged all-out aid, and asked Roosevelt to do everything necessary to defeat the Axis powers...
This is the week that a well regarded Princeton basketball team, considered by some the dark-horse of the Eastern Intercollegiate League race, makes its long delayed start in the seven-team round-robin fight for 1941 championship honors...
Milquetoast by day and Superman at night, Tyrone Power outdoes Doug Fairbanks' earlier characterization of Diego Vega (alias Zorro), the Spanish Robin Hood of sixteenth century California. He rescues peasants, puts villains to the sword, and woos fair ladies with swashbuckling bravado. But porcine Engene Pallete steals acting honors as a he-man parish priest who crosses himself with one hand while wielding a wicked cudgel with a other. Basil Rathbone, who dictates to the local Franco, meets the just desserts of sneering down a long nose; and Linda Darnell drops in just long enough for two kisses...
...frenzy-inclined community on Kyushu Island, he was raised in the "school of heroes" of Miss Takaba, a unique female warrior who wore two swords and swung two hot little fists. In his youth Toyama evaded and broke successive apprentice ships, embarked on a self-righteous outlawry something like Robin Hood's, and about 1894 established the foundations of the Black Dragon Society...