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O'Rourke, Manzo, Gladchuk, Zabilaid, Connoily, and Worenleoz forget that the football season was over when they lost, 59 to 36, to the Crimson Independents yesterday afternoon at the Rindge Tech gymnasium in a basketball game marked by butting, charging, blocking, broken field running, and a total of nineteen foule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O'Rourke and Co. Unable to Make Tactics Work on Court | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

>Belgium's defense was in final readiness, and correspondents were shown that country's new defense against tanks: mobile, steel-girder "gates" on rollers, which can be pushed across country, two men to a gate, or dragged in long lines by tractors. Chained together, the gates form a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Neutral Preparedness | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

By last week NBC was busy handling dozens of complaints from irate people whom television sounds kept butting in on. To radio fans NBC in desperation sent six pages of technical instructions on how to eliminate television's interference. Mr. Knox got another type of earphone and waited for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Butting In | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Last week, after a year of extravagant ballyhoo on the part of his manager, shrewd Oldtimer Joe Jacobs, Two-Ton Tony (weight 233!) was given his chance against the best prizefighter in the world, Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis. Not in years had a world's championship heavyweight match been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gallant Galento | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Two days after the Fifth U. S. Marines landed at St. Nazaire. France on July 2, 1917, Buck Private Abian Anders Wallgren was arrested for trying to smuggle two bottles of cognac into camp. It was the first vagary of a mildly undisciplined disposition which ultimately got Private Wallgren seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wally Returns | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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