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...Swistowiczs, Skoglunds, Kosikow-skis and Kellys include one fancy-stepping freshman and an even 53 ex-serviceman stars. The line, a coach's dream, bristles with the likes of ex-Gob Zygmont Czarobski, a 213-lb. bonecrusher tackle, and 205-lb. End Jim Martin, a husky ex-Marine who swam ashore on a voluntary reconnaissance mission just before Tinian was invaded. And even if Perfectionist Leahy has not found him yet, Notre Dame surely has at least one express-train halfback up its sleeve somewhere. The real question is when he will be sprung. One good bet is squatty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crusaders & Slaves | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...remaining entries, some were better art than poster art. Most commented on of all were four queer-looking items which were neither, but which might well have brought awesome whispers from fanciers of U. S. primitives. These were by a bedridden ex-gob named Robert S. Owen, who painted them while lying on his back in his Colorado Springs home. Painter Owen's posters, reminiscent of the childlike, words-of-one-syllable cartoons of Hearstman Nelson Harding, belched and dripped with arson and mayhem, made Europe's troubles look like a chamber of horrors. In one a bolshevik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Posters for Britain | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...Kenneth Overlin, Washington ex-gob: the New York State version of the world's middleweight title, by a 15-round decision over "bolo-punching" Ceferino Garcia, Los Angeles Filipino; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 3, 1940 | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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