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...other quarter-final in the upper bracket, Hugh Hyde, tall red-head who ranks high on the Varsity team, will meet up with another player built on the lines of Bill Tilden. He is Mal Moley, a lanky Freshman from california...

Author: By Melvin J. Kessel, | Title: Jenkins, Daniels Lead In Tennis Tournament | 10/23/1942 | See Source »

Chicago has ten vocational schools working day & night. The biggest, recently completed, has been turned over to the Navy, will train 3,000 seamen at a time to become teachers of metalsmiths. Lane and Tilden Technical High Schools plan to offer glider courses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In High | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...GLADYS TILDEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 8, 1941 | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Last week, while planes dropped flares in Manhattan's North River, parachutists attacked Long Island's Floyd Bennett Field, and mock invaders stormed and took Fort Tilden (near Coney Island), the Information Center moved with precision and dispatch. Its instructions guided the operations of 250 pursuit ships, batteries of 800,000,000-candle-power searchlights, five anti-aircraft regiments. Although at first as much as six minutes elapsed between a flash and the allocation of a disc, the Center soon got its timing close to the 40 seconds which the Army thinks adequate. The Army had high praise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Wings Over Manhattan | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Kovacs' specialty, like Tilden's, is making hard shots look easy. But unlike Tilden, he sometimes makes easy ones look hard. He used to do a lot of clowning on the courts, but this year he has been serious most of the time. Despite that, and despite his considerable natural ability, last week Kovacs did not win the singles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Not for the Pros | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

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