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...sank his final putt for a birdie, he promised: "Things are going to get better." A week later, Ben won the Bing Crosby invitation tournament. At Long Beach the week after, he won again. On the 18th green he sank an 11-ft. putt ("It seemed like the longest I ever made") to tie Jimmy Demaret; next day, in the playoff, Hogan won by two strokes. Said he: "I guess I'm making myself unpopular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Circuit Rider | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

After 207 hours and three minutes of continuous broadcasting, WHRV shut down the longest musical orgy in its history Wednesday morning. It far exceeded last year's 84 hour session...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRV Ends 207 Hour Marathon | 1/21/1949 | See Source »

Lebenthal claims that he has handed in the longest thesis in the recorded history of Princeton University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princetonian Sets Thesis on Record | 1/18/1949 | See Source »

Some of Hogan's fans call him "Blazin' Ben," but another nickname-"Little Ice Water"-fits even better. He stands 5 ft. 8½ in. and weighs only 140 lbs., but he manages consistently to hit one of the longest and straightest balls in golf. Apart from such purely technical skills, little Ben Hogan is the fiercest competitor in the game. With his relentless training schedule and assembly-line precision, Ben is all business, considers a social round of golf the most boring thing in the world. Any man who outscores the champ more than once this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Ice Water | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...hero of Erostratus expresses his morbid hatred of his fellows through a completely senseless murder. The longest and most ambitious story is The Childhood of a Leader. This is Sartre's cold dissection of a French industrialist's son, showing how his social and sexual inadequacies led him to the assuagements of anti-Semitism and a superpatriotism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Nowhere to Nothing | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

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