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...speech, Prime Minister Menzies offered chin-up counsel to Hoad and to the U.S.'s Tony Trabert (who has suffered slumps and criticism in the past): "You, Tony, and you. Lew, are great players and but for players like you, there would not even be any such contest as the Davis Cup. Don't worry too much about critics. If there were no actors in the drama, there would be no critics. Don't you read a word of what they say. Go for your life. You are much better players than any of your onlookers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crisis Down Under | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...there is fever and there is pain. The least we could do in an effort to be charitable would be to recess the Senate, in consonance with the suggestions made by eminent medical authority. When Senator McCarthy is ready, he will be back here to defend himself, with his chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elbow Grease | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...remember much else about it. Then Debbie walked over near us with a bunch of Puddies in tow, and I noticed her nicely tailored grey flannel dress, which fit like a soaking-wet nightgown. The lady from RKO lent me her hanky so I could wipe my chin and introduced me. Ripping out my pen, I made the accompanying sketch as she turned to another interlocuter and then asked her if I could have a few minutes alone with her. She said okay and then scampered off to the piano and sang a song which she insisted we all sing...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Some Enchanted Tea Time | 11/17/1954 | See Source »

...when they brought Marilyn Sheppard into the courtroom ... It was all done with seven slides in glorious Technicolor and a cocky unsentimental little medical examiner with a Phi Beta Kappa key spinning from his vest chain and a red bow tie, notably unsuitable for corpse-pointing, askew under his chin. It will take many sessions of court and a multitude of distractions to erase the first brilliantly colored picture flashed on the big white screen in the darkened courtroom at that dreadful matinee. No wonder Dr. Sam cried and would not look. She was beautiful. So lovely, and so bruised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: So Lovely & So Bruised | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...wicked elbow. By the middle of the second round, both fighters were smeared with blood. The music rose to a frenzied tattoo. With every blow, the 8,000 Thais in the stadium chanted for more blood. Sriswasdi jerked Kaeh's head down and kneed him viciously under the chin, blocked a feeble counterpunch, spun his man around and jabbed at his ribs with both elbows. Dazed, his opponent backed away. Sriswasdi took aim and kicked him in the groin, finished him off with a knee in the belly. The crowd screamed approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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