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...Team. His play last week in the tennis matches against the U. S. was indifferent, almost sour. William Tatem Tilden II ran him razzle-frazzle in three straight sets. That was the beginning of a clean sweep for the U. S. at Mexico City. John Hennessy conquered Ricardo Tapia, schoolboy, and later, with less trouble, Gringo Kinsey. Wilmer Allison won a tough match from Alfonso Unda. In the doubles, Captain Tilden and Arnold N. Jones disposed of Unda and Kinsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mexico v. U. S. | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

David Binney Putnam (1 4-year-old explorer, 6 ft. ½ in. tall, author of David Goes Voyaging, etc., Hotchkiss schoolboy) and his father, Publisher George Palmer Putnam, offered U. S. Boy Scouts four months of fun and an avenue to fame. They will select two youths, between the ages of 13½ and 15, to go with them to Africa to observe animals with Hunter-Photographer & Mrs. Martin Johnson (Simba). The trip will begin on June 15, end in October. The two Boy Scouts will write a book about their doings, be paid royalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Soul, by Muriel Haskell, is an entirely ludicrous pattern, attempting to present, in its melee of prongs and beams and curlycues, an allegory as trite, as uninteresting and as unconvincing as the metaphors in a schoolboy's sonnet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Independence Days | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Freshman track team will journey to Exeter this afternoon to meet the schoolboy team on its out of door board track...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1931 Trackmen Take on Exeter | 3/3/1928 | See Source »

...work of Davison, Noble and Greenough star, in winning the hurdles and 600-yard run, and in tying for first in the meet. Draper, also of Noble and Greenough, hurled the 12-pound shot 47 feet 3 inches to establish a new schoolboy record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOBLE AND GREENOUGH WINS SCHOOLBOY MEET | 2/23/1928 | See Source »

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