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...lofty New York Times, not a client of United Press, was apparently guilty of caginess and poor sportsmanship. Two days late it printed a story from its Tokyo correspondent stating that the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun (U. P. client) was carrying an interview with Stalin. It then repeated the gist of the interview which was, of course, United Pressman Lyons'. A few days later Times Correspondent Duranty got his interview with Stalin. Certainly by that time the Times was well aware of the U. P. "heat." Yet the Duranty story referred only to "Japanese correspondents" as recent interviewers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Moscow Scoop | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...public as well, because retiring Coach Bill Roper of Princeton will be the guest of honor. By inviting Mr. Roper to attend this hitherto exclusively Yale gathering, the New Haven graduates not only express their own admiration for their guest but also give evidence of the fine sportsmanship that intercollegiate rivalry can create...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BILL ROPER | 12/6/1930 | See Source »

...refusal, so grossly insulted that he would never go back to Arizona again. He said he would not even write any more of his famed Arizona stories (Under the Tonto Rim, Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon, etc.). He charged neighboring hunters with spreading untrue, derogatory tales about his sportsmanship. Said he: "In twelve years my whole bag of game has been five bears, three bucks and a few turkeys. I have written 15 novels with Arizona background. Personally it cost me $30,000 to get material for one book alone-To the Last Man. My many trips all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Angry Author | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...fought game. The scores of every important football game in history would have to be revised. The decision of every hard-fought game would require about as long as the Teapot Dome case. This being the case, it seems to us a little shorts of the fine old Bulldog sportsmanship to broadcast to the world this particular non-called Army foul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/30/1930 | See Source »

Utterly different in character, the products of the more casual atmosphere of Harvard are inevitably put on the block for comparison with those of the grim government industry, a comparison that involves not only team play, but also individual undergraduate attitude and sportsmanship. But with the traditional slum and gravy signs, the future generals will come again for the annual fiasco, and John Harvard will discard his Bible for a glance at the future defenders of the rights of the peaceful...

Author: By The Pointer, | Title: ARMY COUNTS ON COORDINATION IN GRIDIRON CLASSIC | 10/18/1930 | See Source »

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