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...could say that General Ike Eisenhower had so much as cleared his throat to help the Eisenhower-for-President boom. But there was a sparkle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How's That? | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...save Harvard athletics from the ignominy of such a future, the head wiggagger has called for candidates for the six vacancies in the choerleading corps. Preliminary trials and throat warming exercises will be held on the stops of the Indoor Athletic Building at 4 o'clock tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Megaphone Trumpets For Tyro Cheerleaders | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...meant it." Barbara was going to take Igor to her nest in Tangier, said Miss Maxwell. "Barbara's bathroom looks out on a minaret. Every evening as the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer, so close is Barbara's window that. . . she can see him clear his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh's Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital, a surgeon picked up a hot electric needle one day last week and went to work on Mayor David L. Lawrence's left eye. Some of the tissues inside the Mayor's eye were torn. Like a welder with a torch, the surgeon thrust his needle into the back of the eyeball, heated the damaged tissues and joined them together again. The chances were good that the drastic operation would save the Mayor's eyesight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Welding Job | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...daughter of Throaty Contralto by that great sire Glittering Generalization." The bidding stopped at $320. "Before I could extricate myself," writes Sidney Joseph Perelman, "the auctioneer had brought me to my knees and was administering the estocada. In vain I pleaded that I had merely been clearing my throat, that I lived in a hotel for business girls where no cattle were permitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down on the Farm | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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