Word: pins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshman coach Van Brower uncovered some fine material in Johnny Loe, lger Iben, and Bud Adams. Adams, a smooth performer, used a neat guillotine bold to pin his man. He wrestled at Easter, where Lee captained the team last year. Iben is an ex-Illinois State champ...
...good old days of Rudolph Valentino and John Gilbert, said Novelist Banks, the typical woman, "a creature of emotion," found that the movies gave her emotions an enjoyable vicarious workout. Banks did not try to pin down the turning point, but many a student of the cinema thinks it was that shattering 1931 scene in which James Cagney pushed a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face. From that day on, the oldtime sleek romantic screen lover began going into eclipse...
...cover. When Oxford University Press agreed to publish the Old Testament stories, Publisher Harte wanted them illustrated in the new kind of journalistic portraiture that TIME and its cover artists had developed. Of our cover artists (the others are, of course, Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chalia-pin), Rowe was the only one who felt that he could devote all of his time to the project. Harte gave him the assignment...
Recaptured after his second escape from Mississippi's prison farm at Parchman, lanky ex-Robber William Frank Moody became a model prisoner. At 22, he busied himself with a correspondence course in radio repair, was soon earning pin money in the pen by fixing radios for fellow prisoners. Because his whole attitude suggested reformation, Bill was allowed to wear the vertical striped trousers of a trusty...
...huge public by admitting with a gay cackle that money had always been his muse). But where other note-makers have nailed their colors to the mast and let their hair down to the last soiled lovelock, urbane Maugham has preferred to soak his colors in bleach and pin his hair in a tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings-down of "fifteen stoutish volumes") contains mostly workaday jottings from 1892 (when he had just started to write) to 1949 (when he suggests that he is just about to stop). "I publish it," he explains, "because I am interested...