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...Premier drew people by the thousands where other politicians did well with a few hundred. When he went from city to city by car, workers poured to the curbs and farmers leaned on tools along the fields to cheer. "I do not care about any political speeches," explained an elbow-churning man in Osaka, "I just want to see the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Face | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...served as such a fine pacesetter the last two times they ran. Wes took over the lead and hustled through the first quarter in a man-killing 56.6 seconds. If he had his way, no one was going to get close enough to nudge him with a free-swinging elbow; neither Gunnar Nielsen nor anyone else was going to have enough kick left to catch him in the stretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The One to Win | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...time Missionary Torrey got to Korea three years ago he knew all the problems of an "R.A.E." (right, above elbow) case. He had studied the latest techniques at New York City's Institute for the Crippled and Disabled, and he arrived in Korea with three spare arms for himself, plus 60 second-hand legs and the makings-joints, screws, webbing, leather strapping, billets of English willow -for 80 more. He was also ready to set up a limb-manufacturing plant in Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: One-Armed Mission | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...turned my head slowly, trying to appear nonplussed. "Your newspaper, Mcinc Herr, but you have forgotten it:" a short, poorly dressed man stood at my elbow. "No.. no, I'm finished with it, completely...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Berlin: An Abnormal Island Floating Above A Red Sea | 2/8/1955 | See Source »

...Bensinger's Recreational Amphitheater on Chicago's Randolph Street is a male refuge in a world that is rapidly going to the dolls. There, fly-blown velvet curtains shut out the flickering neon of The Loop; cigar smoke hangs like a grey curtain of decency between the elbow benders and the ripe, oil-painted nudes behind the bar. Cluttered with old-fashioned sporting prints and spittoons, Bensinger's is a comfortable clubhouse for pool sharks, poker players, three-cushion wizards, and foul-air fiends of every variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Need for Tricks | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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