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Twelve colleges will be represented in the duelling fiesta, will Navy in the favorite's role ahead of defending champion N. Y. U., Rene Peroy's well-balanced Crimson nine man squad, and the Army swordsmen. The tournament promises to be packed with thrills with three now champions to be crowned and four topnotch universities battling it out for team honors. The absence through graduation of most of last year's men virtually throws the two-day affair into three wide-open races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Crimson Foil Team Entered in Intercollegiate Swordsmen Tournament | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

...FIESTA IN MANHATTAN-Charles Kaufman-Morrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peons' Purgatory | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...this neglected locale, Fiesta In Manhattan is the first novel of a 34-year-old New Jerseyite, who discovered Lower Harlem's barrio by way of Mexico, where he spent a year as the happy alternative to going into his father's silk business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peons' Purgatory | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...story of two lately arrived peon newlyweds, enticed to Manhattan by a scatterbrained female gringo travel writer, Fiesta In Manhattan centres on their bungling efforts to adapt themselves to the cramped, precarious life of the barrio, their worse bungling when Juan tries to raise passage money home by peddling marijuana. Living conditions in the barrio, the natives' desperate shifts to make a living, their political tempers, the quarter's underworld are documented by Author Kaufman from firsthand study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peons' Purgatory | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Sugar Bowl at New Orleans is part of a week-long sport fiesta (yacht races, track meets, boxing, tennis and basketball). An invitation to the Sugar Bowl is worth about $50,000. Quick to accept New Orleans' invitation last week were undefeated Texas Christian and once-defeated (by Notre Dame) Carnegie Tech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gravy Bowls | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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