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...House last night and the traditional row of flares was set up to light a path for the squad as it came off the field. In the locker rooms, managers kept up a blare of Harvard band music, and most of the walls were marked with two words in chalk: "Beat Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Squad Holds Last Regular Practice | 11/19/1954 | See Source »

...could go out, but he wouldn't let me until I said I was Eddie Fisher trying to get some fresh air. I went back in, and spied Debbie cavorting on the stage with some hula girls. From time to time she would draw her skirt up to a chalk mark four inches above her knee, cry "Mercy!" as the flashbulbs popped, and hurriedly drop it. She let me hold her silver fox wrap, and a lady from Universal-International, sensing my importance, sidled over and told me Debbie had just flown East for a few days to see Eddie...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Some Enchanted Tea Time | 11/17/1954 | See Source »

...hanging in the square. With Ankara under his heel, Ataturk toured country districts announcing that Islam "is a dead and finished thing." Returning suddenly after eight years' absence to "that cesspool" Istanbul, he summoned notables to a grand ball. Before the band played a note, Ataturk himself stepped, chalk in hand, to a blackboard and for four hours lectured the jaded heirs of the Ottomans on the new, latinized language he had ordained for the republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terrific Turk | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

Kane said he was sure "Lloyd Jordan's films will prove the same thing that the Cornell ones do. The ball was caught inside by a safe margin. It is not true that Jackson caught the ball in the air and came down with his right foot on the chalk stripe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Says Film Shows Third Score Legal | 10/13/1954 | See Source »

...extra equipment plus a large, 75-lb. general-purpose container, makes the stoic little Russian's feat appear rather tame by comparison. But . . . this big tough Russian murmuring "Eto Nichevo," as he [disen tangled himself from] his warning buzzers and portable political tutors after landing "near the white chalk cross," is what prompted me to write . . . All my friends here in Combat Control would like to extend a formal invitation to the U.S.S.R. parachute-jumping team to a spot jumping contest. We don't think chalk crosses (so many feet wide) are quite sporting; we'd rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

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