Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: The fatality of TIME'S cover is not exclusively reserved for sports figures (Letters, Nov. 27). The following men have been jinxed immediately, or soon after, their appearance as Men of the Week (I include only those I remember offhand - there are undoubtedly many more) : Ethiopia's Selassie [Jan. 6, 1936] - his country accompanied him into oblivion...
...Next week the squad hits the road and tackles Brown and Wesleyan in their own back yards and will undoubtedly take a couple of good lickings. This small, inexperienced Crimson hoop squad starts the year with fine potentialities but has much to learn. That the new men will improve game by game is certain, because Coach Wes Fesler is teaching them sound basketball...
...wrestler of the Yardlings last winter, will be fighting for the Crimson at 145. One of the best intra-squad matches of the year is going to be between Thomas and Bruce Richardson, last year's incumbent in the 145-pound position, but Richardson has been laid up this week with a sprained shoulder...
Recently the Court Clerk came to his aid with a special petition. If Orchard got signatures of the District Attorney, the Court Clerk and the County Judge on the petition, he could get his money back. He get the first two last week without any trouble and but one more remained between him and his cherished...
Notice that Jimmy says that arrangements and showmanship plus musicianship are necessary if a band is to have real popular appeal. From hearing the band three different times this week at the Southland. I think that it ranks with Jimmy Dorsey as being the best all around band in the country. And at a great many things, it shades Dorsey. I can remember very few times when I got as big a kick from just the way a band played its music as I did from such things as Lunceford's rendition of the Beethovan Sonata Pathetique. The band puts...