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Roaming through the familiar streets, she met an old boy friend generally known in the nickname-loving neighborhood as "The Chink." (Why he is called that, no one can say. When pressed for an explanation, a local bartender shrugged: "Why do they call me 'The Cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Black Panther | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...Swedish damsel, Flanders jade, A dark Eiran colleen, A Chink, a Jap, a Negro maid, A primitive Slovene, Let chance but send a wench of these To mop our dusty floor, To wash our dinner dishes, please-We do not ask for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Washington, Federal Judge Ben Moore opened a chink in the Taft-Hartley Act this week. He ruled that the act's ban against labor unions spending funds for political purposes was an "unconstitutional abridgement" of civil rights, and dismissed a test case against Phil Murray (TIME, Feb. 23). Next stop: the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Chink in the Wall? | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Raven (Westport International), a cross between a whodunit and Spoon River Anthology, is an excellent story idea and an extremely good movie. The story: someone in a French provincial town begins writing painfully wellinformed poison-pen letters, signed "The Raven." Gradually, The Raven's malice eats into every chink and crevice in the town's uneasy conscience. By the time the culprit is exposed, the community is on the verge of a collective nervous breakdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Walt Budke, pivot man of the champion Columbia Lions and holder of individual scoring honors, was the only unanimous selection in being named center of the first team. Rounding out this quintet with himself and Mariaschin are forwards Tony Lavelli of Yale and Chink Crossin of Penn, and Dartmouth's EdLeede at guard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mariaschin and Hauptfuhrer Make All-Ivy League Teams | 3/27/1947 | See Source »

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