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...Hurley was about ready to give up. Then last summer the manager thought he saw a light: after wandering aimlessly one Sunday into the cavernous Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, Fighter Foster got religion. He became more serious in his training; at his request, cursing was barred in the gym. Foster gave up carousing, went to Bible school twice a week, sang in a choir, carried a zippered Bible wherever he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Education of a Fighter | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...girls are all experienced rowers. In 1945 the aspiring mates rowed for gym credit at the Weld Boat Club, where they used singles, fours, and standard eight-man shells. Harvard took back its facilities at the end of the war, however, and the girls were forced to discard their chamois pants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Navy Up a Creek; Appeals in Vain for a Shell | 4/27/1949 | See Source »

...Bermuda's more prominent local citizens. It was designed as a garden party, but the coming of rain as an unexpected guest drove the party indoors, where in the limited confines of a private home, it rapidly got out of hand and assumed the air of a Y.M.C.A. gym session...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

...M.I.T.'s Rockwell Cage, a huge, airy gym standing apart from the columned halls where man's spirit was under investigation, the scientists discussed man's material condition. In the panel on "the Problem of World Production," Fairfield (Our Plundered Planet) Osborn once more raised his familiar Malthusian bogy of ever-shrinking resources, ever-increasing population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: PRODUCTION | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Belmont Town Team, of which McCurdy is a member, edged out the Saint Alphonsus team 75 to 73 in the tournament finals held yesterday in the Somerville High School gym. Twelve teams took part in the tournament, which started a week and a half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCurdy Wins Prize In Basketball Tourney | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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