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When his boys go to the dressing room at halftime, Crisler lets them rest for six minutes. For the next five, he explains with chalk and blackboard what changes have to be made in their tactics. He does it without dramatics. If Michigan has a big lead at halftime, Crisler always asks, as his players set off toward the field: "What's the score?" The proper answer, delivered in unison: "Nuthin' to nuthin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Specialist | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...broke however in the third canto when three different Jumbo backs crossed the double striped chalk line into the end zone. Austie Lyne opened the deluge, sweeping around end for six points and the first touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Leverett Squad Overwhelms Lowell for Second Straight Victory | 10/21/1947 | See Source »

...perhaps the unfortunate few who take the printings of the Metropolitan press seriously, the football game last Saturday was fought, as most football games are, from sideline to sideline. Close post game inspection revealed no dents in the concrete and only a few widely scattered scuff marks in the chalk boundaries...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Purple Falls as Concrete Shows No Bloodstains | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...lettering. Like most propaganda art, Shahn's suffers from sameness of theme, but sometimes it offers a concise pictorial report as well as a message. Shahn learned to draw the hard way; when he was growing up in Brooklyn, the local toughs used to make him draw chalk portraits of their favorite athletes on the sidewalk. Accuracy was imperative, and Shahn never forgot the lesson. Although Shahn's use of color has gradually become so arbitrary as to verge on artiness, his draftsmanship is often realistic and clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angry Eye | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...that it could not forbid Dr. Moon to teach in Canada; but neither could it promise forgiveness for everything he might do or say in future. If he divulged official secrets during lectures in Canada, he would certainly be in bad. Furthermore, he had better keep away altogether from Chalk River, Canada's Government center of nuclear research, and he certainly could not continue as a consultant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dangerous Knowledge | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

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