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...kindness, an uncomplicated acceptance of ordinary humanity. But, like Paterson, it is oddly erratic, even pointless at times, with commonplace anecdotes and trailing reminiscences. It is the kind of book a man might have written for himself and his friends, random recollections never meant for a critical eye. But "Doc" Williams has always written for himself. Of a critic who once doubted the worth of his poetry, he wrote: "To hell with him . . . Tell him to go wipe his nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Part-Time Poet | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...older, but much wiser, Irish Bob, the student whose cauliflowered face was capped by one of ring history's classic mice, gave the crowd a disfigured grin, climbed into his kelly green robe and jauntily strode out of Madison Square Garden's arena. Maxim's manager, "Doc" Kearns, invited other hopefuls to try deposing the champ some time: "We will fight anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Slugger & the Teacher | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

Doctor's Orders. In Hoboken, N.J., Joe Lawless, 11, limped into a hospital with a bullet wound in his leg and told the intern: "You don't have to go digging in there, Doc. I already dug it out with my penknife. Just put some penicillin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 6, 1951 | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...five convicts seemed to understand the language all right. They had painfully bruised and welted buttocks but, said the prison doc, no serious or permanent injury. Said one simply: "We gambled and lost." Newspapers and many Coloradans did not accept the floggings so matter of factly. This week, beset by critics, Governor Thornton and the state prison board outlawed flogging at Canon City. Not yet decided: whether to take any action against the flogging warden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Understandable Language | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

Glen Davis and Doc Blanchard (Nov. 12, 1945), Army's Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside, romped over Notre Dame the week of the cover. Score: 48-0. Then they charged through the rest of their second unbeaten season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 23, 1951 | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

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