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...three desks sat Jenkintown's (Pa.) Edward V. Sherry, Chicago's local prodigies Norman Saksvig and Edith Kohn. At another sat Cortez W. Peters, a 220-lb. Washington, D. C. Negro, wearing a brown silk polo shirt, a white rag bound around his brow. At a fifth desk, a special one with built-in knee pads to protect his shaking knees, sat sleek, handsome, 33-year-old Albert Tangora, instructor in Manhattan's Radio City School of Business Practice & Speech. He wore a green eyeshade and his manicured fingers raced to keep the title he won year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Alchemy of Time | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

They were away down the last 15-minute straightaway. The excited crowd could hardly restrain its cheers. Typster Saksvig had fallen back, but between Blackamoor Peters and Italian Tangora, both sweating in rivulets, the score board showed a dead heat. Tangora was a few words ahead but he had more penalties scored against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Alchemy of Time | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

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