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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Today one may buy a domestic set (two racquets, a bird and a net) for as little as $1.45; or one may pay $45 for an elegant imported British set (with Spanish-cork, French-kid-covered, Czecho-Slovakian-goose-quilled birds) like those used by Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Douglas Fairbanks and other Hollywood enthusiasts. Although serious badminton addicts play indoors where there is no breeze to affect the true flight of their birds, many a tournament player, such as Mrs. George Wightman (donor of the Wightman Cup), Tennist Sidney Wood and William Faversham Jr., plays outdoors with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On the Lawn | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Cancer is a wildfire growth of rebel cells. Why and how normal cells suddenly go haywire and pile up into malignant tumors is the crucial research problem in cancer today. Last week, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Milwaukee, Dr. Herbert Eugene Schmitz and James Ernest Davis of Chicago's Mercy Hospital prodded the dark cancer whirlpool with one more little ray of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Blue | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...long police record, a beauteous consort (Helen Patterson Heywood, who divorced her husband for him). Last week, friendless, feeble, finished, 59-year-old Dapper Don went to Sing Sing to serve 15 to 30 years. His crime: a piddling swindle. Said he: "I've been around, but today I'm just an old reprobate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...retired recently, after 13 years of service, with $30,000 worth of Richman stock, a savings account of $3,500. About the same time a tailor with a larger block of stock, a house fully paid for, retired after 25 years of service, to make room for someone else. Today the market value of stock held by Richman employes is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Daddy | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...were in the retail shoe business. Then Max went into second-hand books, started the Harlem Book Co. as a retail bookstore on Manhattan's 125th Street. When Depression hit, he waved ready cash under publishers' long faces, cornered the market in publishing's distress merchandise. Today he owns several bargain bookshops, a reprint house which publishes under half-a-dozen aliases. Not even Salop himself knows how many books he sells a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Junk Man | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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