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...more indication that England's guests this summer were making themselves right at home. To a country which prides itself on taking its games more seriously than its battles, the situation was beginning to look a bit too one-sided. The London Evening Standard's Columnist Hylton Cleaver seriously suggested last week that all foreigners, including horses, be barred from British sport for two years so that the home product might recover its lost confidence. The Observer's Editor Ivor Brown was more philosophical about it: "We can play second fiddle happily enough so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Guests | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Colonel Guy T. Viskniskki is celebrated as a newspaper doctor, an efficiency expert. He is tough, ruthless, and almost as bald as a hard-boiled egg. Called in to operate on the frumpy Portland Oregonian in 1934, Efficiency Man Viskniskki took one look and laid about him with his cleaver. Deadheads rolled, deadwood was chopped away, and the "old lady of Alder Street" woke up with her face lifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Doctor in the House | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...this prospect of more beef failed to cheer dapper, brisk George A. Eastwood, 65, president of Armour & Co. In words as sharp as a cleaver stroke, Eastwood told Armour stockholders that total packinghouse production would probably drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Mirage | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...ROBERTA CLEAVER WEIR Penn Wynne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 28, 1942 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Captain Bill Bird of the Blue finished fourth and Charles Cleaver and Dave McClellan in 15th and 18th places also helped to nail down the victory of Yale...

Author: By Kenneth S. Lynn, | Title: Underdog Eli Harriers Win Heps As Crimson is Second | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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