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...halfway mark the two early leaders of the pack, little Dick Metz and big Chick Harbert, went haywire-they could not keep up their sub-par pace. Golfers who still had a chance to win drifted into the clubhouse, bit into sandwiches, tried to wash them down with a glass of milk. Some ate sugar lumps to steady nerves. The tension infected the crowd: the grapevine spread that someone's putter was getting hot, and the crowd drifted from threesome to threesome looking for the player who would fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hard Luck Sammy | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...chief fad everywhere. Another fad: "shorty" coats (known in some stores as "swallow tails"). In Chicago, Marshall Field's offered a shorty specialty which was going like hot cakes among teenagers: a "hot-jive jacket" of yellow plastic with such sharp legends as "Natch" and "Slick Chick" printed on it. The "slicker" days of the twenties were back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easter Lays a Small Egg | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Pennsylvania, sparked by two of the league's individual scoring guys, Chick Crossin (first) and Jack Colberg (third), looks hot in the books, but the Quakers' fire was thoroughly squelched last week by Columbia, 66 to 50, and Cornell, 42 to 37, Suffering from the loss of star center "Butch" Van Breda Kolff two weeks ago. Princeton's Tigers dropped three straight games and tumbled from an early first place tie with Columbia to fifth slot on the league ladder...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/18/1947 | See Source »

Open the Door, Richard! made no more sense than Kilroy, or Chickery Chick or The Hut-Sut Song-and was obviously in for the same flash fame. Its simple-minded chorus, something that any fool could sing and many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Open the Door, Richard | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...problem . . . you just have to know how much is in good taste. Once in a while, if I hadn't had a good-looking babe in the strip for a while, Patterson would send me a note saying how about bringing in the Dragon Lady or some other chick. And he used to hate it when the balloons were too long. ... I didn't agree with many of the things he did in his last years. He seemed to feel that in wartime there's a place for a newspaper that is the voice of the disgruntled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Escape Artist | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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