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...technical improvements he found in football--the place kick, for instance. Wood and the players of his day converted extra points and booted field goals by drop kick so as to gain an extra blocker, but he admits now that the modern place kick "is more accurate and quicker...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 4/15/1952 | See Source »

Shepard says speed will be the important motor in the game, and he is revisiting his lineup in order to keep up with the quicker Penn team. Gerry Murphy will replace the slower but bigger Ed Blodnick. The other forward is Bill Dennis. Dick Lionette will start at center, while Ed Krinsky and Ed Condon will be at the guards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Seeks Upset Tonight Over Fast Quaker Team | 2/6/1952 | See Source »

...pavement, all the life against the dead-looking buildings." Since Colleen Browning is an artist, she set about painting what she saw, and last week she put 13 pictures on display in a Manhattan gallery. Harlem has been painted more expertly, but seldom with more sympathy or with a quicker eye for vivid detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Colleen in Harlem | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...race." The Russell solution: "A single Government for the whole planet." But he concedes that "world Government is not possible unless Communism is overthrown or conquers the whole world." No friend of the Soviet system, Russell prefers the first alternative, but he feels that the Iron Curtain might melt quicker before a flow of Western goods than a flow of invective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bright-Eyed Rationalism | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

Thank you for your Dec. 3 article, "Back to Chancery." Children who are taught only "Renaissance calligraphy" (we call it manuscript) learn to read much quicker, easier, and faster than when taught cursive writing. Also, children who are taught manuscript writing excel in spelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

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