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While Ouimet was squeezing into the semi-finals for the ninth time in his career by trimming Medalist Fischer with a 12-ft. putt on the last hole, another Bostonian, giant Jesse Guilford, was eliminating Chick Evans, title-holder in 1916 and 1920, 5 & 4. Ross Somerville defeated Boston's William O. Blaney 6 & 5 and Johnny Goodman, who unexpectedly whipped Bobby Jones in the first round at Pebble Beach in 1929, put out Maurice McCarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Five Farms | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...lowest grade of Latin American, and she kills him with a dose of poison. So rude and forceful are his amorous tactics that she has the full sympathy of all decent members of the audience. She is driven to distracted crime by her high-minded affection for a young Bostonian (Robert Montgomery). Her low Latin despises this affection, threatens to cut it short. Letty Lynton's misdemeanors are committed with complete impunity. She is saved from the consequences of committing murder when Robert Montgomery goes into court and commits perjury in a tactful, heroic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...guard barred the way. They appealed to Curator Herbert B. Tschudy. He was polite but firm: they could copy almost anything else in the Museum, provided the copies were only of parts of pictures-but not the Sargents and Homers. When the Museum bought its Sargents from the bearded Bostonian, it promised that his water colors should never be copied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Copyists | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Ernie Schaaf, a pale, bulky young Bostonian, was one of Jack Sharkey's sparring partners until Sharkey, thinking Schaaf showed sufficient promise to be groomed for the heavyweight championship, became his manager and got him a fight with Max Baer, which Schaaf won. Schaaf, who has won 20 of his last 30 fights, last week went to Chicago to fight William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, who was beaten last July in Max Schmeling's sole effort to defend the heavyweight championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stribling v. Schaaf | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...broadcast games at Soldiers Field. Announcer Husing's account of the Harvard-Army game had sounded crabbed to Harvardmen. Coach Casey had refused to show Husing diagrams of Harvard plays or let him watch practice. The Harvard-Yale game will be broadcast by Ralph ("Gil") Gilroy, a South Bostonian whom Harvardmen well remember as a hard- boiled Princeton halfback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 23, 1931 | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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