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Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, bringing back memories of baseball's better days, battled it out at Manhattan's Polo Grounds. The plump Sultan of Swat masterminded his Eastern team to victory over the plump Nonpareil's Westerners in Esquire's annual Ail-American Boys' Game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Notions in Motion | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Ever since then WWJ has been scoring radio firsts right & left. It claims to have broadcast the first play-by-play accounts of baseball and football games, World Series game (1920), prize fight, full symphony concert (with Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the Detroit Symphony). Walter Hampden, Fanny Brice, Fred Waring, Ty Cobb, Lillian Gish and Thomas E. Dewey (singing with an Owosso church choir) made their radio debuts over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pioneer | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...Vegas, Nev. Sluggy 's official charges: "Extreme cruelty." Her unofficial reaction: "A very pleasant mar riage." Died. The Reverend Eric Liddell, 44, Scottish athlete and missionary to China; in a Japanese internment camp. At the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, Theology Student Liddell refused to run his special ty, the 100-meter dash, on Sunday, next day set Olympic and world records with a 47-6-second 400-meter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 21, 1945 | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Please don't hide behind the skirts of "optional spelling,"" because the only permissible variations are 1) substitution for euphony of s for the fifth pair of Is (letters 40 and 41); and 2) ti or ty for dy (letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 12, 1945 | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

Smitty has been bombing Japs since the beginning of the war and has flown torpedo bombers more hours than any other living man in the Navy. Last week he was still at it, flying off an Essex-class carrier near the Philippines. Like Ty Cobb in his later years, Smitty now automatically sets a record every time he goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Smitty | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

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