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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Senior Partner Erro Saarinen, broad-shouldered, impish son of Cranbrook's famed, apple-cheeked Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen, was elated but slightly old-hand about the victory. Five years ago he won third place in an architectural competition in Helsingfors," last summer won a fifth in the Wheaton College free-for-all (TIME, June 13). A few weeks before the deadline this year, he confided, "I went skiing up at Quebec, and to hell with it." He got back in time to help Friends James and Rapson get their entry in just under the wire, because "competitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fun | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Nachman is sacrificed to the OGPU, Author Singer has long ago sacrificed him as a plausible character. As the last third of the story turns into out & out melodrama, even anti-Communist readers are likely to feel that literature as well as Nachman has been the victim of a frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Singer's Midget | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Standing higher in the final slating than they ever have before, the Harvard wrestling team tied with the Yale team for the third position in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Tournament, held in New Haven last Friday and Saturday. Three members of the team, in the persons of "Chief" Boston, Bill Daughaday and Bruce Richardson, won all of the points...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: WRESTLERS THIRD IN INTERCOLLEGIATES | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...finals, but was unable to cope with the phenomenal wrestling of Tommy King from Lehigh. He was in a position to win second place from his Penn State opponent, Donald Bachman, but because of the lateness of the match he decided to default and received third place automatically. This is the same position that he won last year. He took two points for a fall and third place...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: WRESTLERS THIRD IN INTERCOLLEGIATES | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...beautiful shooting and defensive work, the Yardling hoopsters defeated the Yale Freshmen 51 to 41 in the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday evening. One of the closest in the season, it was either team's game until the fourth quarter with the Yardlings leading at the end of the torrid third period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Five Takes Close Contest Against Eli Hoopsters by 51-41 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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