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...Saturday were anything but that. . . . Despite all you hear about the ultra-ultra atmosphere of the Ivy League circuit, those Crimson characters were the meanest, roughest, most ruthless athletes you could locate outside a lumberjack's free-for-all. . . . The Southern Conference's most scandalous operators of the Flying Fist & the Uplifted Knee are creampuffs compared to Harvard. Charlotee News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROWDIES | 11/14/1952 | See Source »

What with all the mutinies, floggings, knife duels, fist fights and shootings, most of the cast gets killed off, the villains get their due, and strong-jawed Ireland gets both the treasure and Yvonne. With its excess of haphazard and murkily motivated action, Hurricane Smith is likely to leave the moviegoer at sea most of the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

Hound's Tooth. Meanwhile, Eisenhower's campaign train was still in turmoil. Later on the day that Smith produced his details, Eisenhower himself talked with reporters on his campaign train about the Nixon case. Ike posed for pictures driving an angry fist into his palm. His conversation was not for quotation, but the papers soon blossomed out with stories that Ike would not run on the same ticket with Nixon unless Nixon came out of his trouble "clean as a hound's tooth."* The tabloid New York Mirror reflected the indirect statements in a more direct headline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Remarkable Tornado | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...titling the others Honorary Delegates. The Rump group rose in dudgeon and began arguing that the folks at home would attach far more honor to Honorary Delegates than to the common varsity. The legal delegation maintained that the Rump group had no right to any representation whatsoever. A fist fight broke out between two of the Puerto Ricans and the blows continued until Gabrialson withdrew his suggestion...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: The Discovery of a Principle in a Nutshell | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...went on to say: "To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old and ugly subtlety . . . Most all of us favor free enterprise for business. Let us also favor free enterprise for the mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Smart Quarterback | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

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