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...fire an M-1 rifle and a carbine. The closest he came to artillery and flamethrowers was an exhibition; he also saw a tank from a distance. After his basic training was over, he went to Quartermaster School at Camp Lee, Va., where they made him a salvage technician, i.e., "one of the guys who clean up the battlefields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Destiny's Draftee | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...warm and thrilling tones there were occasionally irritating and unviolinlike sounds-scratching, coarseness of tone, a nervous, whining vibrato. But, as he had been showing U.S. audiences for a quarter of a century, Violinist Szigeti could still produce music with an impact seldom reached by many a more spectacular technician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From the Inside Out | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...first week of operation a studio technician, driving home from a Wellesley date, listened to the station on his car radio all the way to Cambridge. Broadcasts were temporarily discontinued that night...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Radio Network Celebrates Tenth Anniversary With Memories of Radiation, Financial Battles | 12/2/1950 | See Source »

...outstanding defensive strategist, Hickman has been recognized as a shrewd offensive technician as well since replacing Howie Odell at Yale. Last winter, he worked out the details of his split-T formation offense, which was introduced at fall practice and used successfully up until last Saturday. The split-T involves a half back, stationed well outside the end, who becomes a man-in-motion threading his way through the backfield on practically every play. This system is well-suited to tricky reverses and laterals, for the wingback can either take a hand off from one of the other backs, fake...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Yale's Hickman Fields a Well-Balanced Eleven | 11/24/1950 | See Source »

...girl with short-cropped hair and horn-rimmed glasses, but a lively quean who can dance, weep and love, and values nothing so much as a warm heart and a glad eye. Writes the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson, noting Fry's faults as a dramatic technician: "Mr. Fry may be a little deficient in talent, but he has a touch of genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Enter Poet, Laughing | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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