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...rarest of rare U.S. games is court tennis, ancient sport of kings and played today by a few hundred expensively sweating sportsmen (on complicated courts costing some $100,000 to build...
...cover three weeks ago, it was only the second time in four years that TIME had put an athlete on its cover. Except for baseball's Mel Ott (July 2, 1945), no sports figure-for obvious reasons -had made the cover since two months before Pearl Harbor. Some sportsmen, who are among the most superstitious of mortals, considered this a good thing for all concerned...
Mongooses are still a hotly debated subject in Hawaii. Sugar planters, who rejoice in rat-free, ungnawed cane, are pro-mongoose. Sportsmen, who have tried with indifferent success to stock the islands with ground-living game birds, are anti...
Pope Pius XII, in good health and high spirits, told 5,000 Italian sportsmen that sport based on fair play "elevates the spirit above small-mindedness, dishonesty and trickery" . . . develops a Christian domination of the human body-which the Church regards as "a masterpiece of God ... a temple of the Holy Spirit...
...captured on the western front when she fell into enemy hands in Wallendorf, where she was working with a service organization. Daughter of the late millionaire rug maker John Sanford, in 1929 she explored the Mountains of the Moon, Ethiopia, with Sidney and Morris Legendre, Princeton athletes (1925) and sportsmen. She brought back wild Yaha hunting dogs, then married Sidney Legendre, now a Navy lieutenant commander, who last week was in Washington on leave from Pacific duty...