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...want to be hot at ping-pong, start training on scotch and soda early in life," James M. Jacobson 1B, former national table tennis champion advised ping-pong hopefuls in an interview yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business Student, Former National Table Tennis King, Trains on Champagne and Stout for Wins | 5/5/1938 | See Source »

...moving the Ping-Pong tables to the basement, where players have asserted they are willing to carry on, what is now a game room could easily be turned into a reading room. At present non-residents can study only in the common room, where piano playing, chess and checker games, and conversations are liable to interrupt the quiet at any moment. Books can be acquired with almost as little trouble and expense as a room. Out of the vastness of Widener Library a few books can well be spared to start the collection at Dudley Hall. The commuters themselves will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOTHER READING ROOM | 3/29/1938 | See Source »

There is a promise of topical trippery when Don Ameche and Cesar Romero set off across the Atlantic in a plane loaded with a buoying cargo of ping-pong balls (a device actually adopted by Crooner Harry Richman & Aeronaut Dick Merrill; TIME, Sept. 14, 1936, et seq.). And there is a promise of native warmth when the plane plops down in the midst of peasant festivities in a Norse village. But neither promise is kept. Just as soon as they artfully can, the script writers haul the characters back to the familiar Manhattan night-club surroundings, and thenceforth the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...tune of four goals and four touchdowns to nothing say be partially explained by the rules difficulties. Football as it was played at Cambridge and football as it was played at Cambridge and football as it was played at New Haven were as unlike as marbles and ping-pong. For years the Yales and the Harvards couldn't get together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Tallied Technical Knockout Over Elis in Historic Opening Clash | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

House secretaries are considering the inauguration of an inter-House ping-pong tournament as an addition to the intramural program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ping-Pong Considered | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

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