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...Amateur tennis stinks-there's no money in it any more." With this overhead smash, 21-year-old Frank Kovacs, second-ranking tennist in the U.S., turned pro last week. So did 23-year-old Bobby Riggs, U.S. No. 1. For 22 weeks, starting Dec. 26 in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Riggs and Kovacs will barnstorm 80 U.S. cities-along with Oldtimers Don Budge and Fred Perry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Team, New Rules | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...only fanfare that attended the first Any Questions? program last January was the moan of sirens and the smash of explosives. BBC had been bombed; the producer of the program was trying to get his family out of a danger zone 200 miles away; it was a wet, cold, angry evening. At an emergency underground studio arrived Expert No. 1: wild-haired Professor Julian Huxley, fresh from the Zoo, where he had been seeing to the safety of tigers. Expert No. 2, Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, clumped in on loud-nailed boots, carrying a vast haversack. Expert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Brains | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...sets and costumes by a Manhattan-French commercial artist (Marcel Vertés.) the hats by chic U.S. milliners (John-Frederics), the choreography by a veteran Russian (Michel Fokine), the leaping and cavorting by a foreign legion of nationalities(the Ballet Theatre). Such was the ballet Bluebeard, a smash hit whenit was put on last week in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Ballet in Manhattan | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...chemical ingenuity which will not only smash the bottleneck but may soon cut the price of magnesium from 27? to 10? a lb. and make magnesium a goodly post-war competitor of both aluminum (now 15?) and plastics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Revolution in Magnesium | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...really good. As a singer who can act or an actor who can sing, whichever way you prefer, Danny is a winning combination. His personality and pantomime hold the center of the stage from curtain to curtain, and put over the last number, "Melody in 4F," with a climaxing smash which should keep the wolf away from the box office door for a long season...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/18/1941 | See Source »

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