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Last week Hurricane blew into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to redeem himself. His mother had stopped nagging, he said. Like a good boy, Tommy had been trotting ten miles daily on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk. In Stillman's Gym he had been pushing sparring partners around as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Wind | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

Good Motives. At week's end, Jim Hagerty made a backhanded apology to newsmen for "the disadvantages that were placed upon the news-gathering agencies that were observing the [H-bomb] release date. I and other members of the Gov ernment will try to work out, with your help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: H-Bomb Misfire | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

The Chicago defensive pair divided as Lindsay crossed from right to left and Howe swung wide to the right. Quick as a flash, Lindsay backhanded a pass to Howe. Hardly checking his speed, Howe picked up the puck on his stick, whirled past the defenseman, feinted Goalie Rollins out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out for the Record | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

Last summer SHAPE refused to let correspondents cable the location of new bases, though French Communist papers managed to find out enough to print a map of them. Newsmen were refused information on a new headquarters building, though details of the building's vital "war room" were printed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: NATO News Blackout | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

Instead, Big Bob Mitchum, the sloe-eyed superman, makes backhanded love to Susan Hayward, one of the lusty men's busty women, while hubby Arthur Kennedy proceeds to win the cowboy crown and the money.

Author: By Laurencr D. Savadovr, | Title: The Lusty Men | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

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