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Little Segura's lusty swings are deceptive: a shot that seems to start as a forehand drive sometimes floats over the net for a drop shot. A passionate enthusiast, twinkletoed and tireless, he yells Ay! (Alas) when he gets excited. Waiting for a serve, he jumps up & down with impatient impatience. He is fun to watch, and by last week Ecuador's idol was fast becoming the latest darling of U.S. tennis fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two-fisted South American | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...midshipmen training in Manhattan, enthusiast James Joseph Tunney, the Navy's new physical director, demonstrated his new setting-up exercises, swore that after 60 days a man would rather go without breakfast than them. To officers, Director Tunney demonstrated his special new rope-&-pulley exerciser, designed for the liquidation of naval corporations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 26, 1941 | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Married. Virginia Hand ("Jinx") Callaway, 19, only daughter of Textile Tycoon Cason Callaway, good friend of fellow Warm Springs Enthusiast Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and Lieut. Benjamin Mart Bailey Jr., 24, football and track star on 1939 West Point teams; in La Grange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 3, 1941 | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...Princess visited Mount Vernon with Mrs. Roosevelt (Said she: "Why, there are no cupboards in the rooms ! Where did they hang their clothes?"). The Princess was given an ovation at a National Symphony concert in Constitution Hall, attended Mrs. Roosevelt's press conference, and, as an amateur camera enthusiast, calmly took photographs of the newscameramen snapping pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: QUIET CHRISTMAS | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...added attraction for a modern music enthusiast who revels in the hot breath of notoriety and grim conflict, there will be a competition for the Crimson's Swing columnist, open to members of any class in the College. If you desire the immortality of surviving a Crimson competition--or the equal immortality of being cut from one--ramble through the imposing portals of 14 Plympton Street at 7:30 this evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TONIGHT AT 7:30 | 10/8/1940 | See Source »

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