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Leading the Elis will be former White Plains, N.Y., standout quarterback Dean Loucke. In front of him will be a Blue line captained by Bide Thomas and averaging 201 pounds from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JVs, Underdog Freshman Team Face Yale | 11/20/1953 | See Source »

Casey: "If the honorable member will bide his time, all will be made clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Nest of Traitors | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...championship bout, a referee, Ruby Goldstein, called it quits after ten rounds and was lugged off to the dressing room suffering from heat prostration. Robinson, in one of his peak performances, was doing all the work while the heavier (by 15½ lbs.) Maxim was content to bide his time, using his superior weight in the clinches to tire out the challenger. The strategy, such as it was, began to pay off. In Round 13, Sugar Ray, his eyes glazing and his legs rubbery, threw a prodigious right. It missed the target by a yard and Robinson sprawled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Misfire | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

Alexander Hilsberg is a man who knows how to bide his time. For 25 years he played his violin in the Philadelphia Orchestra, the last 19 as concertmaster. Most of that time, he was wishing he were a conductor. Says patient Alex Hilsberg: "Each man must wait his call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Conductor in Waiting | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Bide a Wee. In Savannah, after a funeral-home attendant fled in terror from a snoring corpse, police discovered William Fleming asleep with three bottles of beer beside him, got his story: "I was just trying to find a peaceful place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 18, 1951 | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

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