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...Japanese Champion Jiro Yamagishi, quit because of a strained shoulder; at Southampton, L. I. For Riggs it was the third match he had won by default in eight days, having so defeated onetime Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood in the quarter-finals two days before and onetime U. S. Champion Wilmer Allison in the final of the Seabright tournament week before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 16, 1937 | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

Amelia Earhart thus made national headlines as the first woman to cross the Atlantic, with Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon in the Friendship. After that she settled down to learn flying as well as she could. She flew for fun, flew for publicity. While flying for Beechnut Products she made headlines by cracking up an autogiro, nearest thing to a foolproof aircraft. But she learned to fly so well that she became the world's No. i woman flyer, rolled up an impressive list of "firsts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amelia Earhart - One in a Million | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

Bayard Cutting Fellowships for research in Physics to Wilmer C. Anderson, Ph.D., instructor in Physics, and Edward C. Stevenson 1G, of Richmond, Virginia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE OF $16,225 IN AWARDS | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...tell at times which is serious and which is fun." Grand Knight Ellis gave all credit for the founding of his organization to Chief Pump Knight E. Chat Shanks, NAPR's executive secretary who makes his headquarters in Milwaukee's Republican Hotel, and to Brass Nozzle Knight Wilmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Filling Station Fun | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...STORY OF SECRET SERVICE-Richard Wilmer Rowan-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Fat (720-page), fascinating florilegium of spies, real and apparent, "going up and down the backstairs of history" since Moses' day; busiest, softest footsteps, says Spy-Catcher Rowan, were England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 15, 1937 | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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