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...some excuse for going back to the cool spots they had just left. Or others, like Johnny West and Carl Bottenfield, were eliminated for reasons beyond their control. Still others with brittle legs found themselves in hospitals. But most of them stayed on, were off fat, and beat the hell out of each other...

Author: By Samuel Spade, | Title: Crimson, After Victory and Defeat, Is Finally a Team | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion is raising hell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Game | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...capital. Papa Tacho moved in. Argüello fled to the Mexican embassy, then to Mexico, where he died. Growled Tacho, who finally decided that Uncle Victor Román y Reyes was a safe man for the presidential palace: "Some day I may meet Argüello in hell, and then I'll give him an uppercut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: I'm the Champ | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Tacho, his wide-brimmed campaign hat jammed on his balding head, was characteristically cheerful. "I like a fight," he roared. "I'm not afraid of anything ahead. If I didn't have the strength to stay here, then I'd get the hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: I'm the Champ | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Assistant Managing Editor of the Indianapolis Times, wired: "The returns made me realize how good, old-fashioned legwork-the kind I hadn't done-was still the most important part of our press structure. I think that a good deal of our press reporting has strictly gone to hell; there is too much thumbsucking, too little pavement-pounding . . . From now on, Indiana is neither G.O.P. nor Democratic to me. I know I'll have to dig to find out. It has been a wonderful lesson to those newspapermen who still have enough sense left to know that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Happened? | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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