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...deck, thus proving that its two previous victories were not farces. Last week the Ithacans gave Tom Bolles six and a half very bad minutes before the Crimson edged ahead, and apparently Harvard will have its work cut out for it when it tackles Navy on the sixteenth...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Varsity Eight Outgrows Princeton; Wins Compton Cup for Sixth Year | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...squad, which at present seems to be poorer than last year's, and is especially weak in the doubles, may round into shape before the match with the powerful Yale team on the sixteenth, according to Dick Dorson. Brailey, Cameron, beside Tufts and Zinsser, seem to be definitely the best bet in the doubles at the moment...

Author: By Edward D. Bodman, | Title: Lining Them up | 4/28/1942 | See Source »

This tribute was high on the list of 37 slogans distributed by Tass. Soviet news agency, to commemorate the Red Army's 24th anniversary (TIME, March 2). Last week came proof that the tribute was more than earned. In a maneuver encircling the Sixteenth German Army at Staraya Russa, 140 miles south of still-besieged Leningrad, Soviet troops were guided by a guerrilla named Ivan Grozny, who is known as "Ivan the Terrible." Guerrilla Grozny and his guerrillas cut communications, uprooted German mine fields, finally marched 25 miles through bitter cold and deep snow to help encircle the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The People's Avengers | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...East Coast the sixteenth victim of Nazi submarines, Standard Oil tanker W. L. Steed, went down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worst Week | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

When the Knights of Malta sent off a solid gold jewel-encrusted falcon as a gift to their sixteenth century over-lord, Charles V of Spain, they could hardly have imagined the complications that would ensue when it cast its shadow over the lives of an English gentleman of leisure, an oriental scoundrel, an adventuress, and a San Francisco private detective. And when the spectator sees the quartet assembled in the detective's apartment for the denouemeut, he has hardly more idea of what comes next than when he hears the first shot ring out and sees the victim crumple...

Author: By A. Y., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/28/1941 | See Source »

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