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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...eight outlanders) was particularly potent; it won the national championship, and its starting five went on to the U.S. Olympic squad and later to professional careers. Last year, hurt by graduation, Rupp rebuilt. This year, with big (7 ft., 215 lbs.) Bill Spivey as a firm foundation at the center post, Rupp is ready for another big season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ready & Loaded | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...Manhattan, an anonymous adman (following the slogan of the wartime campaign against venereal disease) was boring from within by flooding Madison Avenue and Rockefeller Center with matchbooks carrying the ominous message: "Help Stamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Onslaught | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...umpire shouting "Play Ball!" at Ebbets Field, the whimper of a puppy. Last week, from Gibraltar to Korea, British soldiers & sailors were also hearing the sounds of home. A BBC overseas program called You Asked for It carried such nostalgic sounds as the chime of Southampton's Civic Center clock striking 8, the rumble of the Welsh express going through the Severn tunnel, the Dunstable Salvation Army band blowing itself "pink in the face beside the traffic lights on a Saturday evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sounds of Home | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...aeromedical laboratory at Oklahoma City, CAA man John J. Swearingen built a pressure chamber like an airliner's cabin, with seats and a window of thin plastic. He made dummies with the weight, center of gravity and articulated joints of an average human being. He seated a dummy next to the window and pumped air into the chamber to simulate conditions in a pressurized airplane flying at 30,000 ft.* Then he focused his movie cameras and broke the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Danger at 40,000 Feet | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Weiland has also abandoned the experiment which saw Captain Lew Preston switch from left wing to center on the first line. Preston will be back on the wing tonight, while Joe Kittrege resumes his center slot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity and Yard Sextets Will Face Strong BC Teams | 12/20/1950 | See Source »

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