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Double Check. In Kansas City, officials of the Excel Office Supply & Equipment Co. sought the man who paid for a check-protecting machine with a bum check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 13, 1948 | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...partisan crowd trailed the two golfers around the 6,617-yd. course. One of Bachelor Stranahan's pretty fans had no trouble predicting the winner. Said she, loud enough for the players to hear: "Frankie's pants have perfect creases. That other guy looks like a bum." Replied Billows affably: "Lady, I've got a nicely pressed suit in my locker -and I'll wear it tomorrow in my semifinal match." Stranahan had already muffed three easy putts, let it bother him so much that he began bending his tee shots. On the 13th hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After Ten Years | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Checkmate. In Detroit, Vernon Dobson bought a car with a worthless check, sold it at a profit to cover the check with cash, discovered that he had been given a bum check himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Said California's Jimmy Roosevelt: 'It's like a football game, and deciding to pass on the 20-yard line. If you connect -you're a great quarterback. If the opposition intercepts ... the quarterback is a bum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Turnip Day Session | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...word went round Jersey Joe Walcott's training camp that Champion Joe Louis was worried. He actually sent a spy over to scout the enemy. But when the champ's agent arrived, Walcott's men gave him the eye-and the bum's rush. They had him halfway out the door before Jersey Joe intervened. "Let him watch," he ordered. Then Challenger Walcott, using pillowy 16-oz. gloves, neatly flattened a sparring partner. Said he: "Tell Nicholson to take that back to Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Challenger | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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