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...explained why: woman "has faced the universe and made her home in it. ... Men, sheltered by their women, have used the universe as their playground. They may work in it, but they never quite grow up in it." Women are not very funny as actresses, either, said he. His clincher: "There are ... no Marx Sisters...
...months ago, at an unpublicized conference of top U.S. specialists in Washington, Dr. Holm produced his carefully documented evidence: he and his co-workers had immunized 250,000 Danes, cut their T.B. deathrate to one-seventh that of the unvaccinated. BCG, he said, "is absolutely safe." The clincher: a U.S. test of 3,000 Indians which produced the same impressive results (TIME, June...
That was the clincher. No one could deny any longer that Assault, the Texas-bred chestnut with a clubfoot, had what it takes. His 1946 earnings of $339,720 were an alltime high for a one-year campaign. Victory in the Arlington (Ill.) Classic would make him the third biggest money winner in turf history...
...directive charged that as a Cabinet member (1927-1929) Hatoyama had helped suppress freedom of speech. As late as 1942 he had endorsed aggressive war. The clincher was an erstwhile bestseller titled Face of the Earth, which Hatoyama had written in 1938, after a tour of Europe. Excerpts: "The Japanese people . . . must not betray Hitler's faith in them." "Mussolini is one of the great heroes of his generation...
...first time since basketball was introduced in Cambridge, a Crimson team looms as by far the strongest contender for the New England N. C. A. A., championship--and with it an entry into the national playoffs at Madison Square Garden next month. The clincher came as Floyd Stahl's crack quintet extended its victory string with smashing and surprising victories over Boston University and the Quonset Naval Air Station in two decisive contests last week...