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Last week Sammy Lee received some news that left him "a little embarrassed, but darned proud." He had won the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan award as the nation's No. 1 amateur athlete in 1953. Sammy was embarrassed because he was so busy being an Army medic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 1 Amateur | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Attention to Detail. In Japan, Marine Lieut. James H. Orr took his old darned uniform to a tailor, asked to have another made exactly like it, returned later to find the new uniform, complete with darn.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1952 | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

Paul F. Griffin, of Wynnewood, Pa., went into "factory work and selling" after college, in 1940 got a law degree from Fordham, served with the Navy, later represented the Judge Advocate General's office on two Navy legal boards in Washington, and worked with the EGA in Germany. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Memories of the Rabbit | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

Regarding "Trouble in the Air," there's also plenty of it on the ground. Those of us who signed on as "Christmas help" when Korea broke have got stuck with the package-wrapping detail, and we're pretty darned sore.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 19, 1952 | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

According to William H. Weston, Professor of Cryptogamic Botany, the algae are not dangerous, but are "darned unpleasant."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harmless Green Algae Tinges Local Waters | 4/9/1952 | See Source »

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