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...second floor of the Indoor Athletic Building an enthusiastic gang of fellows tug around with each other on a big black mat in seemingly strange fashion every afternoon, but there's method in their madness because all are under the watchful eye of Pat Orr Johnson, youthful Varsity and Freshman wrestling coach. And right now Pat has a right to flash his broadest smile in years, because as soon as his Varsity matment can shake off a few minor early-season injuries, they have a good chance to develop into one of the most powerful and best-balanced squads...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: What's His Number? | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...Finns were suddenly pictured as dreaming "dreams of aggression." The Finnish Government became "marionettes chained to the hounds and incendiaries of war," a "gang of hired bandits of capitalism," "bestial murderers mad with their savage dreams of a Greater Finland up to the Urals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Rabbit Bites Bear | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...pulled to a stop, a German in civilian clothes stepped out of the cafe and made a mysterious signal. At once a gang of civilians rushed across the border from Germany, firing wild shots (one of which killed Mynheer Klop). The civilians bundled their captives into another car, and drove across the border. Secret Agents Stevens and Best were arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Himmler's Thriller | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...right out again with his abdominal muscles, chops it into speech with his teeth, tongue and lips as he expels it. Easiest type of word to learn is one like "church," formed with teeth and lips. Hardest is a guttural sound in the back of the throat, like "gang." Belch-talk is easy to understand but so husky that patients are often asked if they have a cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Belch-Talk | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...bright, brown-eyed Michigan lad with good schooling and a job, seemed headed in the right direction. Then, one night in 1933, he went dead wrong. With his big brother and two other fellows, he kidnapped and robbed a Detroit man named Joseph Nesbitt, watched one of the gang shoot the victim and leave him to die by the roadside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Inside Stuff | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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