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...report, a few just to watch and, at least one, just in case. They range from doctors to deans, from doddering "H"-men to varsity athletes, from regular sports writers to "stringers," as the local correspondents for the Boston dailies are known. All have one thing in common: a buff-colored card signed by W. Henry Johnston, director of sports information. This card is to prove to the sophomore managers guarding the gate that the bearer is not from Princeton...

Author: By Richard B. Kline, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/26/1952 | See Source »

...Labor M.P. crouching naked in a willow tree, with 40 Scottish housewives prancing below and screeching: "Come doon, ye mangy tod, and I'll buff your beef!"? Why does a stern Presbyterian minister stand by waving a two-handed sword and bellowing: "There is a harvest still, a harvest of thistles and of tares, for the sword of Gideon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greek in the Heather | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...with a spare and sure touch. What they lacked in detail was made up in warmth and spontaneity. In a painting of his young daughter Kate, prim and neat in a party dress, Cox had added off to one side a quick sketch of her playing in the buff which deftly caught the uninhibited side of three-year-olds. Even in a portrait, says Cox, "you're trying for something universal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Experiments in New England | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...graceful gesture to the Japanese, the Far East headquarters have now been moved out of the Dai Ichi Building, seven year symbol of U.S. prestige and domination, to a group of long, buff-colored buildings on Tokyo's outskirts, which once housed the Japanese War Ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: Education of a General | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

Helen Traubel was warned before she went to Japan that the Japanese prefer instrumentalists to vocalists. Moreover, they could hardly be expected to understand the words of her Wagner and spirituals. But husky Soprano Traubel had full confidence in the effect of her big voice. An old baseball buff,* she answered that she would throw her voice "like DiMaggio throws a ball," and she was sure that the Japanese would "catch it." In 26 concerts in a dozen cities, Soprano Traubel had the Japanese fielding every note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Japan Catches It | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

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