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September 18, 1937

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Turf and Gridiron

PROFILE of Tim Mara, bookmaker & founder of the Turf and Gridiron Club. In 1925, Mara established the N. Y. Football Giants, the profiessional eleven which…

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ROUND TRIP TO NANKING

REPORTER AT LARGE tells about a train journey from Shanghai to Nanking, a five-hour trip which took sixteen hours; of returning to Shanghai finding the …

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