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...horse of the year, chestnut-colored Busher, has none of the foibles common to fillies. She outeats every colt in the stable; far from being a high-strung prima donna, she is a lazy worker who never does anything more than is asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Foible-less Filly | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...Captains also has a plot: an old story about some north-woods bush pilots (James Cagney, George Tobias, Reginald Gardiner, et al.) who have to learn that modern air combat is a young man's business. Cagney complicates matters further by appropriating another busher's girl (Brenda Marshall). He squares everything in the end by fatally ramming a pesky Messerschmitt 109 with his weaponless bomber-thus clearing the Atlantic crossing for the rest of the ferry pilots, who high-tail it for England while he drops dizzily into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Brooklyn fans gloomily remembered a faintly similar situation just eleven years ago. St. Louis and Brooklyn were neck & neck with only ten games to go. The Cards, hoping to strengthen their pitching staff, brought up from their Houston farm a rawboned busher named Dizzy Dean. Though Dean pitched only one game that year (a three-hit victory), Brooklynites can never forget: the Cardinals won the pennant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Them Bums | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...appear in her own production, she has a worthy substitute in Premiere Ballerina Stenuf, an engagingly plump Viennese who was runner-up to Henie in the 1936 Olympics. Skippy Baxter, a Massine of the runners, began his career, aged 10, on rented skates in Ottawa. Le Verne (last name Busher) developed her off-beat virtuosity at De-Pauw University and in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...today and others may be procured at the CRIMSON Building. All lives which are not handed in by tomorrow afternoon will be left out of the book. J. S. Baker, N. C. Baker, J. L. Batchelder, P. H. Bennett, M. O. V. Bogant, M. M. Brewer, R. E. Busher, E. L. Casey, W. C. Chandler, R. S. Codman, J. R. Craig, L. Crosscup, J. F. R. Cuniff, J. J. Curry, E. J. Day, A. C. Despotes, C. M. Draper, R. S. Emmett, S. G. Falk, M. Fochhelmer, H. Fiske, G. Freedman, W. Gaston, J. Goldman, M. W. Grady...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Notice | 4/8/1919 | See Source »

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