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...hours thinking or playing golf with grim-faced concentration. Harvie Ward, 26, of Tarboro, N.C. spends a good part of his time at his stockbroker's job, plays golf with a more happy-go-lucky air. A onetime intercollegiate golf champion (1949 for the University of North Carolina), boyish Harvie Ward plays in big tournaments now & then, but he was still without a major victory when he teed off with Stranahan in Scotland last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golfer's First Try | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...Smuts used to say, "If we see any wrong, let's put it right without bothering about possible repercussions on our grandchildren." But Daniel Malan, stiff-necked in his self-righteousness, has chosen to force a hard solution. The heirs of Smuts in Parliament are ineffectually led by boyish-faced Jacobus Gideon Strauss, an anglicized Boer who apes Smuts's mannerisms but lacks his master's voice. Outside Parliament they have found an idealistic but impulsive leader in Adolf ("Sailor") Malan, a cousin of the Prime Minister's and an ex-R.A.F. group captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Of God & Hate | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

cassock with purple piping; from his shoulders billowed a purple cape and on his chest gleamed a gold cross. He looked taller than his 5 ft. 8 in. He bowed graciously into the wind of applause, smiling a boyish smile. Then he turned his gaunt, discreetly made-up face (Vs base and light tan powder) toward one of the three television cameras on the stage. He said: "Friends, thanks for allowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Microphone Missionary | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...center panel, the mushroom cloud of an atomic-bomb explosion rose over scenes of destruction, flint-faced firing squads in U.S. uniforms, crucified and gibbeted North Koreans. At the left stood a benign Stalin, filially flanked by a boyish Mao Tse-tung, who held out the Red dove of peace to three glum cartoon villains-a gun-toting, Bible-clutching Uncle Sam, a fist-clenching John Bull, and a somewhat hung-over Marianne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Diego Stays Home | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

Joan goes through her paces as a dangerous woman with all the familiarity of long experience, but Dennis Morgan's boyish twinkling seems oddly out of place for the greatest eye doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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