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Though he was born at Rathkeale on the banks of the Deel, strapping Christy Lynch is no pure Celt. He is the grandson of a Swiss governess in an aristocratic Irish family. Only three years ago, he was a sportswriter's hope for all-Ireland goalkeeper in Ireland'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music, Mar. 19, 1945 | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

The Atmospheric Conditions. The Navy, for that matter, had been an experiment with Miss Mac. As she once declared, possibly with tongue in cheek, "Life in the Navy has taken me out of the cloister in which a woman was unaware of limitations on her freedom or individuality, and has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miss Mac | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

¶ Just get the champion in the ring with his opponent, and the champ will do the rest. "The task is to get penicillin to the microbes," said Discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming. "You can do it with a simple spray, snuff or lozenges." He predicted penicillin in lipsticks and tooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Notes, Mar. 5, 1945 | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

Lindbergh of the Caravels. A successful Florentine businessman, and a famed astronomer and geographer, Vespucci did not become a sailor until he was 45. Then he proved himself a Lindbergh of the caravels, sailing to his destinations with cool calculations and almost without excitement. Where Columbus was visionary, gifted, brilliant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Name & The Man | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Said Captain James Cook two centuries later: "The method of lunar distance from the sun or stars is the most priceless discovery which the navigator ever could have made, and must render the memory of the first discoverer of this method immortal."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Name & The Man | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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