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...only had a breakaway back," he mourns, adding that Notre Dame this year will probably play a good deal of "Minnesota football''' (three yards at a crunch). Leahy prefers tricky overhand laterals and daring forwards with trade names like Banana, Swerve, Flair, Stop & Go, Rainbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crusaders & Slaves | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Even more attractive were the Pan Am promises based on the Republic Rainbow, a 46-passenger, 400-mile-an-hour-plus transport whose military prototype is now in the air (see cut): 5½-hour coast-to-coast service (best time now: almost ten hours); 2½-hour flights between New York and Miami (present time: 5½ hours). Pan Am does not expect to get the first of the six Rainbows ordered ($1,200,000 apiece) till late next year. But it may take the slow-moving CAB that long to answer Pan Am's shrewd request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Sauce for the Goose... | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Krug looked like an Alaskan himself when he got into a wool shirt. He flew across the Arctic Circle to Point Barrow, ate whale meat, and walked through a litter of walrus heads to duck into native shacks. He surprised his guides by landing two-foot rainbow trout in the Kenai River. He also listened-and listened. Everywhere he went-Fairbanks, Point Barrow, Anchorage, Seward, Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Metla Katla-Alaskans who had always wanted to tell the Secretary of the Interior what they thought of the Government proceeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Formal Introduction | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...Congress in Manhattan next month: Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk and his wife, Colonel Wanda Wasilewska of the Red Army. He is one of Russia's leading dramatists (Front, Death of a Squadron, Truth) and a member of the Supreme Soviet; she is a former Polish (now Soviet) novelist (The Rainbow), head (during the war) of the Union of Polish Patriots in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Nor Heat, nor Gloom of Night | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...Reader Sandler been reading Boris Artzybasheff's mind? Between TIME covers and his numerous other assignments, Artist Artzybasheff some time ago designed his own version of a U.N. flag (see cut). At least one color from each of the world's flags is used in the rainbow-red (the most common color in flags), orange, yellow, green, light and dark blue-on a white field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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