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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ranking national champion, Joseph L. Lewis of Dorchester, neatly walked away with first honors in the Saturday Olympic tryout. A star in the fencing world since his days as M. I. T. intercollegiate ace in 1926, Lewis displayed a flashy Italian style to defeat all in his path...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HURD FINISHES THIRD; IN LINE FOR OLYMPICS | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

Arriving from all directions, the ranking swordsmen of the nation will gather at M.I.T. Saturday to take part in a major tryout for the 1936 Olympics. This fencing tournament is to be the largest ever staged in this country. At 3 o'clock on Saturday the competition will open in the Walker Memorial with the preliminary foils bouts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.I.T. WILL HOLD OLYMPIC FENCING TOURNAMENT | 1/24/1936 | See Source »

...alumni will participate in the tryout Saturday: John G. Hurd '34, of Auburn, Call. (Intercollegiate Champion in his Senior year), and Gilbert Kerlin '33 of Moorstown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.I.T. WILL HOLD OLYMPIC FENCING TOURNAMENT | 1/24/1936 | See Source »

...beautician to fix her bobbed hair. That evening by special invitation she went back to the White House for 8 o'clock dinner and the glittering Diplomatic Reception which followed. Clearly Helen Hayes had made a profound impression upon the Presidential family. And critics who watched her Washington tryout forecast another hit for her when Victoria Regina opens on Broad way this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Helen Millennial | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

Going hungry for the sake of her infant son, Coralee fainted at a tryout for a part in a revue the great Chardon was producing. Thereafter good fortune came her way in breath-taking abundance. When she accidentally collided with a handsome young South American in the street, he turned out to be a dashing Argentine millionaire-"although taller than they usually are." When she needed groceries, a basket of them was brought to her humble apartment by a delivery boy who turned out to be the same millionaire in a borrowed smock. "Had le bon Dieu," wondered the pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paris Luck | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

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