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Hero of this year's series was the same towheaded titan who was the hero of the first post-War series in 1921 and every series since (except 1936 when he was too busy to go abroad to play): Thomas Hitchcock Jr. Son of the captain of the first U. S. polo team (that lost to England in 1886), Tommy Jr., at 39-and after a quarter-century of competitive polo-proved last week that he is still the best polo player in the world. Spectators, gasping at his fearless riding, peerless tactics, magnificent driving and accurate shotmaking, realized...
Another college baseballer who has had big-league scouts tripping over one another in the stands is Duke's Leftfielder Eric Tipton, more famed as the punting halfback who almost singlehanded defeated Pitt's famed football team last fall. In three years of varsity baseball, Titan Tipton has batted .446, .407, .410. Tipton, however, is not Duke's only slugger. This year's team has six .400 batters. So far this season they have won 21 of their 22 games, have averaged n.i runs and 13.2 hits a game-a record even more extraordinary than Duke...
Often in the history of music, men of considerable artistic stature are lost to view in the shadow of a contemporary titan who dominates his period to the exclusion of all lesser figures. With Bach and Handel towering over them the lesser composers of the early 18th Century have been almost entirely obscured. Vivaldi, Corelli, Teleman, Rosenmuller and Rameau are only a few of the composers of this period whom the average concert-goer classifies--if at all--as "like Bach, but not as good...
...Chamberlain remained snug and cozy at No. 10 Downing Street last week and Mr. Chamberlain went fishing. It had been a titan's task to win brief leisure for this favorite recreation of Britain's best-known brother of the angle and Prime Minister. His method is to get things done by businesslike steps. First, he averted European war by Czechoslovak dismemberment. Second, he won a vote of confidence on this act last week, 366 to 144, in the House of Commons. Third, he averted strife in his Conservative Party by postponing indefinitely the annual Party Conference which...
...vigorous believer in Anglo-American hands-across-the-sea is British Press Titan Lord Beaverbrook (born plain William Maxwell Aitken). Last week, when U. S. Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett arrived in London, Lord Beaverbrook's friendly hand had a distinctly ham quality about it. Speaking through his Daily Express and Evening Standard his lordship found Mr. Gannett eminently qualified to be President, handed him the nomination. "In two years, Gannett may be the President of the U. S.," warned the Standard...