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...lineup changes are planned for the Brown match, with Macgowan, Allis, Ames, Shepley, Tarlow and Davis, in that order, slated to tee off for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Golfers Lose Opener, 6-3 | 4/17/1942 | See Source »

These two baby giant pandas (escorted by Zoologist John Tee-Van,) arrived safely in San Francisco last week after a hazardous journey by plane from Chungking to Manila, by ship from Manila to Hawaii, through the sub marine-infested Pacific in the first convoy to reach the West Coast since the Japanese attack. Captured last summer in the cool hills of inner China, they are presented to the U.S. by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek in gratitude for the activities of United China Relief. In a new, barless $15,000 home at New York City's Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Convoyed Pandas | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...game, wooden pegs (kangaroos) are used instead of balls and they are driven from a portable, slope-topped wooden tee-the projecting end of the kangaroo is struck with a sharp downward chop to send it jumping as in tiddlywinks. A set costs $12.50. There are four different-shaped kangaroos: the Turtle (for distance), the Speeder (for an accurate second shot), the Flash (to get over a high obstacle), the Torpedo (for a stop-dead approach or putt). Players carry their kangaroos in a canvas pouch not unlike a carpenter's apron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tiddlygolf | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...more than 70,000,000 bags of surplus coffee from growers, spent millions for fuel oil and labor to burn it. But last week, thanks to a U.S. chemist, it looked as though Brazil might make something on its coffee surpluses. Means: cafelite (pronounced ka-fay-leé-tee), a new plastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLASTICS: From Coffeepot to Ashtray | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...first tee, hard by the street, a leathery-faced golfer was getting ready to tee off. "Fore," shouted a soldier. The golfer turned and glared at the trucks. Thereupon the soldiers let him have it: "Hey, buddy, do you need a caddy?" The man on the tee handed his driver to a caddy, jumped a three-foot fence, stalked to the convoy. A command car in the column jerked to a stop, and its officers piled out to face an Awful Fact. The golfer was Lieut. General Ben Lear, commander of the Second Army, director of the maneuvers from which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Yoo-Hoo! | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

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