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...ready to clamp to his nose, as when he described a provincial sausage: "The odor was as if you had entered a stable at the moment the coachman was unwinding his leg puttees; when you started chewing the stuff you experienced a sensation like sinking your teeth into a tar-smeared dog's tail." Yet he spent a heroic overworked year heading off a cholera epidemic in a west Russia country district, all the while grumping unheroically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power of Negative Thinking | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Undefeated North Carolina continued its triumphant tour of the east by blanking the varsity tennis team yesterday, 11 to 0, on the Soldiers Field courts. Earlier this week the Tar Heels overwhelmed Williams and Amherst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Bows At Net, 11 to 0 To Tar Heels | 5/5/1955 | See Source »

...first singles match, the Tar Heels' Herb Browne swept Ham Gravem, 6-3, 6-0. At two, Captain Alex Haegler played his finest tennis of the year, displaying a very powerful forehand, but bowed to Tom Bradford, who rotates with Browne and Bob Payne in playing one. Payne defeated Conrad Fischer at three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Bows At Net, 11 to 0 To Tar Heels | 5/5/1955 | See Source »

...three men on the Tar Heel squad are practically equal, for number one man Herb Browne has been extended to match point by Bob Payne has been extended to match point by Bob Payne and Tom Bradford, who play at two and three respectively. Other North Carolina players are Ron Kerdasha, Pete Green, and Don Thompson. Each member of the squad has held some national boys or junior title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Tar Heel Squad to Oppose Varsity in Tennis | 5/4/1955 | See Source »

...Heckscher and Gravem will play number one doubles for the Crimson. Haegler and Harris will play second doubles, and either Canfield and Fischer, or Mayers and Ian Gianetti will meet the third Tar Heel doubles team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Tar Heel Squad to Oppose Varsity in Tennis | 5/4/1955 | See Source »

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