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...baseball team's string of three victories was the big surprise of the year. Yale was reported to be strong, and the Crimson was coached for the first time by Floyd Stahl. The Crimson won behind "Slim" Curtiss at New Haven, 3-0, behind big Tom Healey at Cambridge, 8-1; and behind Sophomore Charlie Brackett and Curtiss at New London, 5-4. It was the varsity's first series victory over Yale since 1932, when legendary Charley Devens hurled for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teams Won Five Yale Contests Last Year | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

...financial manipulator under successive North China regimes. Decrepit at 60, he looks as if he had been made of cheap Japanese materials. For some time he has wanted desperately to resign. For several weeks he has refused even to pretend to work. But puppets do not resign; a string is pulled and they disappear. Last week the Northern Wang, jealous of the Southern Wang, whose super-puppet regime would eclipse his, was reported "in retirement" in the gorgeous Summer Palace of the C'hing Emperors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Wang, Wang | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...used for the California visit of the Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark. Studio clippers excised a whole scene which she wrote, climaxed by a Maxwell song entitled Whistle a Little. Old Melody, to which two trained dogs did a dance. To augment her picture work, she made a string of lecture dates. Partygiver Maxwell gave no parties in Hollywood for other people (her onetime profession), only one on herself, in honor of her visiting friend, the Duchess of Westminster. Hollywood was satisfied when, at a preliminary dinner for 30 intimate friends, Hostess Maxwell put at each lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...cinemaddicts, however, will be the effectively venomous performance, as Alec's mercenary wife, of Cinemactress Kay Francis. Having worked out a long-term contract with Warner Bros, which kept her in the top money (over $5,000 a week) but buried her as the suffering woman in a string of B pictures, sleek Cinemactress Francis in her first free-lance job shows that she still belongs in the A's, that, properly encouraged, she can even pronounce the letter r without wobbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Ellerslie studs (59 this year), owned by Kentuckian Arthur B. Hancock, biggest commercial breeder in the U. S. Next largest group will be 44 put up by Willis Sharpe Kilmer, another famed breeder who, unlike Hancock, keeps some of his stock for racing under his own silks. A small string, however, that always commands attention are the dozen or so offered each year by the Belair Stud of Collington, Md. For Belair's owner, 63-year-old Millionaire William Woodward, Chairman of The Jockey Club, whose 50 members regulate the sport from start to finish, is not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scarlet Spots | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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