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...error gave the Crimson a run and a temporary edge in the sixth inning. Bernie Akillian singled and scored on right fielder Bob McCue's muff of Dick Clastiy's wind-blown fly. The Bruins, however, clinched the decision in the top of the eighth, combining two singles and a double steal (which had misfired twice before) for two more runs and the game...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Nine Commits Five Errors, Loses to Bruin Varsity, 4-3 | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

Some of his entries are almost hiccuping with raw poetry. In Bryce Canyon he saw: "A million wind-blown pinnacles of salmon pink and fiery white all fused together like stick candy-all suggestive of a child's fantasy of heaven . . ." In Salt Lake City he let loose a hot blast at Mormonism: "The harsh ugly temple, the temple sacrosanct, by us unvisited, unvisitable, so ugly, grim, grotesque, and blah . . . Enough, enough, of all this folly, this cruelty and this superstition-into the white car now and out of town." But what the Mormons had done with the countryside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Look Around | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...full of awesome scenery and the photogenic excitement of mountain climbing. Against backdrops of fog, a blizzard and glaring snowscapes, Director Ted (The Window) Teztlaff skillfully conveys not only the hairbreadth perils and sheer exertion of the sport, but also a fair idea of its tricky techniques. A buxom, wind-blown Valli, with talent to match her good looks, helps to keep the Alpine vistas from stealing the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Ambassador Lewis Douglas was back in London after the dollar talks, minus the patch he has worn over his left eye since it was snagged by a wind-blown salmon hook last April. He paused on the front stoop of the U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square to exchange grave greetings with an old family retainer named Reggie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Hard Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Lewis Douglas, 54, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was coming along fine: doctors now thought that they could save his left eye, which was snagged by a wind-blown fishhook a month ago on the Test River. Leading off a long report to the State Department, Douglas cracked: "As I see the problem from my bed, and through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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