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Jake began calling his new engineer friend Coach Roche. The Coach was a fanatic on psychology and energy conservation. In "third-stage" tennis, as Roche calls the big-time game, he says that players are often so evenly matched that an iota of stamina cdn mean the difference between victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Said Judge Francis J. Ford coldly: "The defendant . . . is sane. He is a fanatic. Counsel for the Government said he was a snob-I do not adopt the word. [But] he was willing to adopt any ideology that would give him a chance to associate with people that he thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASON: Life for a Snob | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Disingenuous Nosiness. Author Goertz sees her heroine as only a little lower than the angels. Her innocently disingenuous nosiness helps to bring about a marriage between two cripples, a therapeutic romance for a depressed war widow, a happy ending in a sordid triangle affair. Even her death from heart trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tabloid Angel | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Vag broke off as he saw in Pendrake's eyes the defensive glaze one assumes when listening to a religious or political fanatic. He extended a hand and said, "Goodbye, kid. Lucy's expecting me."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

For color-loving, fun-seeking Sudanese there were color and fun aplenty. It was Leilat el Isra, anniversary of Mohamed's visit to the seven heavens on his human-faced steed el Buraq. It was also the birthday anniversary of Mohamed Ahmed el Mahdi, whose fanatic desert dervishes destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUDAN: Happy Birthday | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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