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...Williams, and Bill, 21, was captain of this year's Yale team. Yale's Coach Herman Hickman rates Bill, a 195-lb. center, the equal of any center he coached at West Point during the war. Then there was Bob (ex-Dartmouth jayvee), Jack (ex-Georgetown), Tim (ex-Williams), Bud (ex-Yale jayvee), and Mary, who married Tom Conley, the captain of the 1930 Notre Dame team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Conway's Boys | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...talk to him." He did that night at the family dinner table with two younger Conways-Terry and Neil-kibitzing. He ticked off Tommy's weaknesses: slow getaways, too much use of elbows, getting sucked out of position. "You got to get smarter," Jerry pounded home. Tim Sr., an Irishman who believes that athletics is the best thing that can happen to a boy, admitted that Tommy was lackadaisical. Under that kind of tutoring, Tommy soon perked up and played better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Conway's Boys | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Here the game was decided. Winthrop tightened up and held Adams for downs on the seven. With only 40 seconds left to play, Winthrop tried to stall the game on their goal line until the whistle, but Adams defensive strongman Tim Wall is broke through the Puritan wall and dumped an end run in the end zone for a safety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Top Adams 6 to 2; Dunster Wins | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

...away with a job ("I did the whoopees and coughs in Cocktails for Two"). In 1946, he tried retiring again. But one day some cronies dropped around to his house, and before he knew it, they had whipped up a burlesque of the mournful perennial, Temptation. Red's Tim-Tayshun sold a million records, and Red found himself in business again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gumbo | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading ev'n fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While Wits and Templars ev'ry sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: BORN TO WRITE | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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