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...most part the game was played and scored like tennis. But there were also openings along the cowshed walls, which the players had to defend like goalies. If the server during play hit the ball into either of two small openings (the grille and winning gallery) it counted a point for him. The receiver had one wide opening (the dedans) to aim for. If either put a ball through the other side openings it counted against him. It was a game that required skill even more than stamina. The first day, Pierre, the old master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Master | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Tall Ones and Trades. In private guise, Sam Breadon was a hospitable fellow, a genial server of long tall drinks. He liked to sing in barbershop quartets. He was a good guy, most baseball writers agreed; but he "would trade his grandmother if the price was right." In his way, he had a certain amount of sentiment for his ball club. Last year, when he flew down to Mexico, rumors spread that he was selling the Cardinals to Mexico's Pasquel Brothers. Sam denied it. Said he, grinning: "The Cards are not for sale . . . that is, [unless] some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sam's Last Sale | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Miss Eleanor Crosbee, name-checker and soup-server, remarked that the new ruling, though possibly it cut down the number of applications for dates, didn't really affect her much personally. "Why should I care," she cooed, "there are enough passes being made around here and then some. I'm no prig...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Howard Is Tame Compared to Union, Chirp Thrilled Co-eds | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Jerry Voorhis pours into its 238 pages the same Messianic energy with which he once served on Yale debating teams, and now server in Congress. He indicts "sound money" financiers all the way from Alexander Hamilton to J. P. Morgan, and incidentally does some hard thinking on one of the biggest and most difficult subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Out of Debt, Out of Danger | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

University extension courses in college algebra and in college trigonometry as announced by the State Department of Education opened last evening in Server Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Algebra and Trigonometry Extension Courses Offered | 5/5/1943 | See Source »

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