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Basketball loves headlines, but last week it got a bellyful of the wrong kind. Gamblers had tried, and failed, to fix a big-time college game in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. As the fixers' trail unraveled, it led straight back to last year in the Garden, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Don't Stink It Up | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Off with White Ties. This destiny was invisible to Fitzroy Maclean when, in 1936, aged 25, he sat sullenly at a British embassy desk in Paris and decided that he had already had a bellyful of life as a conventional diplomat-"those pinstriped suits from Scholte; those blue and white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambassador-Leader | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

As wartime chief of the Army Service Forces, General Brehon Burke Somervell handled the world's biggest supply problem, and got a bellyful of civilian gibes at Army red tape. Last week Old Soldier Somervell, now president of Koppers Co., told the Baltimore Association of Commerce of another kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Bellyful | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Just last week a lion hunter in the Verde Valley told about a young coyote that joined up with his pack of hounds in a lion hunt. When one old hound got a bellyful of such impudence, he turned on the interloper and chased him into the bottom of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Around Plain, Ben's pony, munching grass, was a set of Calumet horses with the exercise boys still in the saddles. It is one of Ben's tricks to let his horses settle down and get a bellyful of grass as soon as they come back from a morning's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Devil Red & Plain Ben | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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