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Pampered Legs. At 23, Mel Patton looks fragile enough to be bowled over by the smell of locker-room sweat. But he has run the 100 yards faster than any man living or dead-in 9.3 seconds (an unofficial world's record). In the chow-line last week, a husky teammate yelled at him: ''Step aside and let us weight-men in. No fuss, now-you're the one man around here I can lick." Patton, grinning, yelled back: "Better be careful, Moose, I gained a pound last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Minutes to Glory | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...clothing they not only will take it but also angrily shoot the owner. They snatch all clothing but what is threadbare. Some refugees save their best garments or other belongings by bundling them deep within a burlap bag full of dirty rags, including urine-soaked baby clothes. The foul smell repels the bandits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: 30,000,000 Uprooted Ones | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...fortune with the Quiz Kids (TIME, July 15, 1940): "We've made the home audience an integral part of every show ... I conceive of this thing as being kind of a national Sunday game." How sure had he been? Says Cowan: "There are certain things that have the smell of a hit about them. This thing smelled like a hit right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Smell of a Hit | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...more than 20 years I have read, heard, and now have to smell those same anecdotes about the Maestro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...basic substance of Homecoming, like the base of a perfume, has a terrible smell; but to many moviegoers, the end product will seem quite pleasant. It is superskillfully custom-blended to please the vast public of Gable & Turner. World War II, reduced for long stretches to a faint, faraway hum, appears to have been just an old sweet song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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