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Of Yale coach Howie Odell's four backfield starters, only quarterback and deadly short passer Tax Furse is completely whole. Line-bucking terror Ferd Nadherny still limps from the Princeton game last week, while halfback Art Fitzgerald suffers from a head injury received against the Tigers. The man Harlow foars...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan, | Title: Odds Waver as Crimson Meets Blue Today in 64th Renewal of Classic | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

Every Sunday before broadcast time (3 p.m. E.D.T., ABC), to "warm up" the studio audience, Lassie yips, yowls, quivers, limps, rolls over and generally works himself into a lather (which Weatherwax wipes off with a clean handkerchief). Then he bounds onto a table, squats with his snout a professional six...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Almost Human | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

It ended an unconscionably long time later, with the Nazis popping buzz-bombs into London, and Adelaide, at the ripe age of 80, still domiciled in Britannia Mews. British Novelist Margery Sharp (The Nutmeg Tree, Cluny Brown, etc.) must have written this one on the back of a series of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not So Sharp | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

A tall officer-another lieutenant-walks into the C.P. He limps. He stares at me in the half light-it is now dusk-and seems to expect me to say something. So I ask him how he's doing. "Not so good," he says. He sits, and holds his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: DUSK IN THE RHONE VALLEY | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

Many of them next ship on a freighter in a huge North Atlantic convoy, Murmansk-bound. Attacked in mid-ocean by a fleet of German submarines, the ship leaves the convoy, but is trailed by one of the U-boats, runs under some Nazi bombers, is finally torpedoed by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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