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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those horrible little imps who badger bewildered ball players were after Stan Musial. They lock-stepped up & down his bat and chanted in his ear: "You're in a slump . . . you're in a slump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Man in a Slump | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Delegates from all over the nation will gather at the Badger campus on August 30 to draw up the by-laws of the student group that had its beginnings in the Chicago student conference last summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Appoints Three Delegates to NSO Parley | 5/2/1947 | See Source »

...Newark manufacturer announced a handcarved, gold-handled, genuine badger-haired shaving brush "for the best-kept man." Cost $3,350, tax included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Commander of the first invasion force was spare, deep-voiced Rear Admiral Oscar C. Badger. Badger had been the first U.S. officer ashore when the Navy went into Tokyo Bay in 1923 to relieve earthquake victims. Now, with his flag on the San Diego, he led Task Force 31, with 10,000 sailors and marines, through the narrows into Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SURRENDER: Onto the Sacred Soil | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...first really effective use of internal monologue. At worst, he goes so far with the trick of building intensity through reiteration that it recalls Fred Allen's parody of Norman Corwin: a poetic drama about Jack & Jill in which a cheering section of inner voices, in accelerating crescendo, badger the heroine with "Jill Jacobowsky, Jill-Jacobowsky Jill-Jacobowsky JILL-JACOBOWSKY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 3, 1945 | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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