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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ashley, a graduate student and the favorite in the tournament, won his first round match over Ed Finkestein with little trouble, dropping only a single game in a 6-0, 6-1 triumph. Ashley is slated next to meet Hal Melvin, a member of the Varsity squad, with the winner scheduled to face Wighman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All Favorites Advance In Tennis Tournament | 7/23/1946 | See Source »

Other team members who survived first and second round matches include Fred Flickinger, whose opening win was a bitter three-set affair, 6-2, 5-7, 9-7; Andy Muldoon, who won his first match by default; Travis Gresham, also a winner by default; Bill Mayleas, with a 6-1, 6-0 triumph, and Bill Brady, who had little trouble with his opening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All Favorites Advance In Tennis Tournament | 7/23/1946 | See Source »

...mayor of New Orleans flew up for a round of casting. Ralph Edwards sent a Truth or Consequences contestant from Hollywood to try his luck.*Amos & Andy wrote a Script around the stunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fish Story | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...earth is round, all right-but not round like a bourgeois ball; it has a more complicated, more Russian shape. So a Soviet scientist announced recently. Since 1940, said Professor Alexander Alexandrovich Izotov, he and fellow Russian geodesists have painstakingly remeasured significant areas of the earth. Their measurements make expanding Russia bigger than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Painless Expansion | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...Chicago Round Table (Sun. 1:30 p.m., NBC). "What Does Russia Want?" Speakers: George N. Shuster, president of Hunter College; Frederick L. Schuman, professor of political science, Williams College, and author of Soviet Politics; Meredith Wilson, assistant professor of history, University of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 22, 1946 | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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