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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America: none of its teams was in so poor shape as the badly-run Brooklyn Dodgers, or the Chicago Rockets, who have won only one game all season. The Nationals' two biggest stars, like the league itself, have been around for years. Sammy Baugh, 33, playing his eleventh season for the Washington Redskins, seemed to throw a football better every year. Though the Redskins are only one step out of the National League cellar, Baugh tops the league with 2,438 yards gained by passing. Right behind him in passing is indestructible Quarterback Sid Luckman, 30, who has field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Turnstiles & Touchdowns | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Then Stassen turned his attention to Tom Dewey, who so far has even declined to admit that he is a candidate. Stassen had already taken one crack at Dewey. "There is nothing in America's political history," he had said, "to recommend an evasive policy, followed at an eleventh hour by a 'me too' answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Wanna Get Slugged? | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...Salt Lake City, despite the sobs of Coach "Kickapoo Ike" Armstrong, alias The Weeping Indian, unbeaten Utah rolled over Colorado A. & M., 19 to 0. Kickapoo Ike, who before a game never lets it be suggested that Utah might win, is enroute to his eleventh Big Seven Conference title in 23 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After the Gun Went Off | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...adamant, eleventh-hour decision, the Student Council last night voted overwhelmingly to cancel distribution of a poll that would have given University students the opportunity to accept or reject a voluntary food rationing program at Harvard. The poll was to be taken today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Vetoes Conservation Poll; Members Disapprove Plaque Plan | 11/13/1947 | See Source »

...Washington, D.C. last week, 352 Unitarian ministers and laymen assembled for the eleventh General Conference of their tiny (69,000 members), creedless sect. Dressed according to their fancy, in everything from sporty tweeds to clerical collars, they met in the ivory-paneled auditorium of All Souls' Church for three busy days of resolution-passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Dissidents | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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