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There are two changes in the CRIMSON nine, Robby Feller being choson for pitching in place of Morry Earle and Cappy Weinberger, the sunkist San Francisco slugger, taking ever the second hassock instead of the former choice, a far less wily willow wielder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FELLER, GOD ON MOUND TODAY AS LEGITS, ILLEGITS CLASH | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

...other attitude. With The Sun Also Rises (1926), Men Without Women (1927) and Farewell to Arms (1929), he had found himself in the unique position of being not only a best-seller but also a writer whom first-line critics intensely admired and respected. Younger writers all imitated him. Wielder of a style of unmatched clarity and precision, master of the art of conveying emotions, particularly violent ones, with an effect almost of first-hand experience, he seemed to have established himself as the most powerful direct influence on contemporary literature. After these three books, however, came the slump. Apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All Stones End . . . | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Coach Jack Barnaby's tennis team will meet three outfits during the next four days, starting with an encounter with the Harvard Graduates team at 2:30 today on the Divinity Courts. Robert Bentley '36 is the number 1 racquet wielder for the visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen to Play Three Teams Within Period of Four Days | 4/28/1937 | See Source »

Never having seen a Hasty Pudding show, the blonde baton wielder, expressed some surprise and much amusement to hear that the chorus was of men. "I would like to see them in their costumes," she laughed. "The hairier they are the better, I suppose," Jack Granara, publicity man for the theater, assured us that if time could possibly be found, Ina Ray would make he first visit to Cambridge, before her present engagement ends, and show the Pudding cast a thing or two about dance routines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blonde Bombshell Flouts Dietitians; And With Exceedingly Good Results | 2/27/1937 | See Source »

...even such a hair-breadth distinction as this was not too small to be split by the hawk-eye wielder of the hammer at the Maintenance building. About a week age a brand new feel-proof device appeared at tached to the door. A package could get in, but an arm couldn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Bit His Nails, Pounded His Nails But Couldn't Control the U. S. Mails | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

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