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Speedy Dan Dacey of Dartmouth led the guards by a comfortable margin, but Jim Dern of Yale nosed out Lou Young, Dacey's running mate, by only one vote. Yale might have been voted a fifth place in the person of center Bill Stack, but since he was unable to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gustafson and Hutchinson Are Placed on All-Opponent Team | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

You speak of the unusual lady who had the honor to play the French horn with the Budapest string ensemble, as "snub-nosed." (I like her picture, myself.) And you deal with the instrument. The "horn" (the forest horn as the Germans call it), famed for the nobility of its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

In the nomenclature of World War II, few names are more widely known now than Messerschmitt. It stands for lethal speed in the air by Nazi pursuit ships. Willy Messerschmitt,* 41, is a sharp-nosed, sandy-haired citizen of the placid, medieval town of Augsburg, Germany. He started flying when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Importance of Being Willy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

> At Ann Arbor, 80,000 Midwest rooters turned out for the 36th annual Michigan-Ohio State game, watched Tom Harmon & Co., with the aid of Old 83 ("a sort of psychic double cross" play originally concocted by Fielding Yost for his point-a-minute teams), outsmart Ohio State's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crisis | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Sparkplug of the deal is a softspoken, balding Detroit lumber wholesaler named Herman I Hymans, who has never before nosed into politics. Originally he wanted to buy only 100,000,000 feet of the hurricane timber, was afraid that if he did the market price would go to pot when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBERING: Woodpile | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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