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If victory was too much to ask from a man of Mulloy's years, was it also too big an order for young Rosewall and Hoad? The semifinals seemed to produce a firm answer. In top physical shape, thanks to Coach Harry Hopman's strict meat-and-sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Melbourne Preview? | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

Then there was the matter of torpedoes. U.S. submariners will never forget one of the great hushed scandals of the early days of World War II: faulty torpedoes. Time after time, intrepid submarine skippers would maneuver into dangerous Japanese waters, line up a shot, and then watch through periscopes while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gloom in the Silent Service | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

In the still August days, events were moving. The big new international fact is that the seven-year-old cold war is no longer a shoring of fixed positions; it has become a fluid diplomatic war of maneuver. Armistice in Korea had loosened the unanimity of purpose that the fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: The New Fluidity | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

But no matter how the vacancy is filled, there is little chance that organization of the Senate will be affected. Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic floor leader, and his advisers decided before Bob Taft died that they want to keep their present minority role through 1954. It enables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Minority Preferred | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

It was not until the Shields family moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1901, that young Corny got out in his first boat. His father, by then the president of the Dominion Iron & Steel Ltd., bought his family a 15-footer. In that, and in a later 25-ft. Class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Design for Living | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

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