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...Madison Square Garden. In the other singles match of the opening performance of an 80-city tour, Bobby Riggs, also making his professional debut, won by default from Fred Perry, 1941 pro champion, when Perry sprawled headlong on the hard floor, injured a nerve in his right forearm. To pinch-hit for Perry for at least a week, Promoter Alexis Thompson got Gene Mako, onetime U.S. doubles champion (with Budge), to turn...
Davao had no defenses to compare with those on Luzon. Strategists have long recognized that in a pinch Mindanao might have to be abandoned to the Jap-who would still be far from his objective, with no solid land bridge to the north. Davao's defenders were a comparatively small force headed by a 51-year-old Texan, Lieut. Colonel Roger Hilsman...
...miles from Moscow in mid-November. On Nov. 16 Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, indifferent to the cost-in-blood (TIME, Dec. 8), flung his armored divisions against Moscow for a second time. He succeeded in driving two long battle tracks into the country about Moscow, as if to pinch it off from the rear...
...pinch had begun, and it would really hurt before it eased up. But so far it was only a pinch on luxuries; the U.S. still had sufficient food and clothing...
That happened a fortnight ago. Last week an even bigger part fell vacant -Die Walküre's Brünnhilde. Helen Traubel, herself pinch-hitting for Kirsten Flagstad (immured in Norway for the duration), took cold. Astrid Varnay found herself dressed up again ; this time in a red wig, a hand-me-down cuirass and tunic of one of the Valkyrie maids, a man's heavy helmet. Again the debutasters were amazed...