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...Manhattan, a buff-colored two-year-old cocker spaniel, Ch. Carmor's Rise and Shine, owned by Mrs. Carl E. Morgan, became the first of his breed since famed My Own Brucie (1940-41) to win the Westminster Kennel Club Show, top bench show in the U.S. ¶ New Zealand produced an added starter to the growing list of potential four-minute milers (Luxembourg's Josef Barthel, Australia's John Landy, the U.S.'s Wes Santee, England's Roger Bannister, Germany's Werner Lueg) when Murray Hallberg, a 20-year-old student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...fall registration each student is presented with two pastel-colored strips of cardboard, salmon for freshmen, buff for sophomores, pink for juniors, white for seniors and yellow for graduate students. On them he must write his name 13 times, his college address 11 times, home address nine times and telephone number seven times. In addition, he has to give his parent's or guardian's name four times and his marital status twice...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Twelve Little Cards | 10/2/1953 | See Source »

Youngsters attending the one-room schoolhouse at Perry Siding, B.C., saw a strange sight as they trooped out of class for their lunch recess one day last week. Ranged outside the school was a crowd of 75 buff-bare men and women, members of the unruly Sons of Freedom Doukhobor sect,* staging one of their nude protest parades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: School Days | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...York Police Department and the Communist Party have been secretly and successfully planting spies in the innermost echelons of each other's organizations. They have engaged not only in mutual theft of all kinds of information, but also in a never-ending game of blindman's buff calculated to ferret out the opposition's operatives. The details of this undercover competition became public for the first time last week, as the department prosecuted one of the Communists' most successful plants -a 42-year-old lieutenant named Arthur Miller, who has spent 16 years on the force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Cops & the Comrades | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...play for pleasure," he said last night. Jordan added that although his score was "too high" it was lower than the others. He teamed with Terrier coach Buff Donelli to defeat N.U. football coach Joe Zabiliski and B.C. coach Mike Holovac in the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Shoots High, but Tops Other Coaches in Golf Match | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

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