Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Though the most Western of all Burmese leaders, Tin Tut was not the British stooge Communists called him. Returning to Burma from Oxford, where he had been a Rugger Blue (played in the varsity rugger team), he was informed that as a Burmese he could not be a member of the clubs in which his British former teammates toasted the old country. His nationalism was hardened and embittered by this treatment...
...think that men edit women's magazines very well," says blue-eyed Bruce Gould. "They always take a superior attitude toward women." But as long as Beatrice is around on the Journal, there is no danger of that...
This week, after many fat and prosperous years, the October FORTUNE appeared in a new format and with a new assignment. "FORTUNE is no longer concerned, uniquely, with Civilization-as-a-whole," said the editorial directive that blue-printed this conversion. "FORTUNE has its own clear mission ... to assist in the successful development of American business enterprise at home and abroad...
...chewing tobacco (he likes pistachio nuts) nor the ballplayer's trait for pinching a penny. As a result, he has hung on to only about a fifth of the $500,000 he has earned from baseball. (This year he will make about $67,000.) He owns a few blue chip stocks, a small annuity, and until recently a part interest with two of his brothers in DiMaggio's Famous Restaurant, a seafood place on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf...
...Columbia coach points out that "Rutgers did everything; but outscore us," gaining more yardage along the ground and in the air than the Light Blue. And Little's first words on seeing the Crimson football team pour out of Dillon Field House were, "My, don't those boys look...