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For the third game, the teams moved to St. Louis. In the crowd of 34,000 were a Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Taylor of Minden, Nev., who had sold their 200-acre farm, driven their car for five days and six nights to be there. Pitcher Dizzy Dean's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series, Oct. 15, 1934 | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

A hilariously happy ending is effected by daffy Burleigh with the aid of a milk distributing project and six St. Bernards.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

All this cheer was for morale, to cheer up the public. For several years doctors have tried to scare everyone with a new, unaccountable lump on his body into running for medical examination. That was all very well, until psychiatrists began to complain that they were being overworked and underpaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer is Curable | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

At San Quentin, Prisoner Mooney left his potato-peeling to hear the decision in the warden's office. Sixteen years behind its grey walls have warped his perspective on the world at large and rendered him ''stir daffy."* Hoping for nothing from Governor Rolph, Mooney declared: "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Four Against Mooney | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

Good though the Tunney-Heeney exchange of pleasantries was, people debated whether Promoter Rickard would get another million-dollar gate. Said Tunney: "Rickard is a nice fellow and a capable man, but I think sometimes he has gone million-dollar daffy. ... I think he could do something for the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snooze | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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