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...marry-"not one who would sit at home all day among the cinders." When he took part in public games, she dressed up as a serving maid and hid in the crowd to watch him, and she was delighted when he impudently snatched her handkerchief and mopped his brow with it during a tennis match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweet Robin | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...football field, Junior is the cool, brow-puckering type who insists on shouldering all the worries he can. His big problem is throttling his 175 pounds down to the speed of his interference. Totally unlike most high-pressure halfbacks, he takes high delight in mowing down a rival tackier while running interference for somebody else (he cut down two Duke tacklers with one swoop to make way for a 36-yd. Blanchard touchdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Super-Dupers | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Does a high brow necessarily make its owner a highbrow? Anthropologists have long and solemnly argued the relative braininess of long-headed v. roundheaded men. Now, an anthropologist who deplores the whole argument - Dr. Franz Weidenreich of the American Museum of Natural History-contends that they have been wasting their time. In a well-documented report in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, he offers a convincing case against the prevailing notion that a long head (or a high brow) denotes a superior brain. Intelligence, he concludes flatly, has nothing to do with the shape of the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bumps & Brains | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Major General Joseph M. Saving's airborne troops marched quickly down from Aparri. North to meet them pounded in fantrymen of the 37th Division, making ten to 14 miles a day. Commented the 37th's Major General Robert S. Beightler, who was later nicked lightly on the brow by a Jap shell splinter: "The Japs can't stand up to an American division on the flat. They cannot take that tremendous fire power." Two days after the jump the Cagayan Valley was U.S. territory - the 11th and 37th had met near the burning nipa huts of Alcala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Junction at Alcala | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Rumor says Bill "Chewy" Shuey a Don "The Brow" Royce had a big the last Saturday at the Statler. Guess left too early, boys. Skippy Sinbe class specimen officer, brought a nine (human) specimen to Cowie last liber eve. Question is, where were "Buggy and Stan...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/29/1945 | See Source »

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