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Scoring for the Deacons were Jim Gabler, Dana Gotchell (2), Slug Dolan, Bill Clap, and Roger Wach, with Berk Johnson getting an assist on the latter two goals and one of Getchell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacon Six Wins, 6-2 | 3/13/1951 | See Source »

...sobering moral sent the audience stumping out of the theater on its knees, pricing bad bargains out of the corner of its eyes. Fry's audiences prance out into the welcoming night, their eyes peeled for a pretty girl to hug or a fellow being to clap on the shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Enter Poet, Laughing | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...shook hands genially, despite a cracked little finger which he kept in a splint. He winced a little in embarrassment when an occasional hearty Republican tried to clap him on the back. No toast-mistress called Robert Taft "my little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Mr. Republican v. Mr. Nobody | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...Leader Harry Bridges freed from the San Francisco jail where he had been held since Aug. 5 as a threat to U.S. security. The "erosive subversion," the court held, had been caused by the Government when it persuaded District Judge George B. Harris to revoke Bridges' bail and clap him in jail during his appeal of a five-year prison sentence for perjury. The Government had argued that Bridges, as a Communist, imperiled the U.S. war effort in Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: In & Out | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...time passed, the journeys became even harder. For when the child was small, if she stopped in the street to clap her hands, or "if, without reason, she began to dance," passersby did not think it odd. Later, they stared. "The kid is nuts," Pearl Buck once heard a woman say. "From that day I began to shield my child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lift Up Your Head . . . | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

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