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Stern, stiff-necked Stepfather Fontaine ruled the household pretty much as though it were a department in his store. He imposed all manner of hard rules, including a strict lights-out at 8:15. Livvie had to study in bed, with a flashlight underneath her blanket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...still prides himself that he can take down an engine), but that flopped. He taught boxing, refereed at football matches. In León he was a meter reader. Then, briefly, he got a city job, inspecting privies. It got him the nickname el mariscal, because the long flashlight he carried looked like a marshal's baton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: I'm the Champ | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Toga recovered, left the cave and returned to Athens, where she was picked up by the police. She blabbed the cave's location and police raided it just as Politis, a short distance away in his truck, was signaling to guerillas there with a flashlight. Arrested, Politis threw himself beneath the wheels of a police car and was packed off to the hospital with a mangled left leg. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: No Telltale Tongue | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Forming behind a depleted band and flashlight-toting Sergeant James Toomey of the University police, early marchers launched the pre-game celebration at 7:15 p.m. in a circuit of the Yard, punctuated at every step by exploding blank cartridges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Welkin Rings as Beery Marchers Chant Indian Death Knell in Fiery Eisteddfod | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

Evening had fallen, and the floodlights were on, when Mathias cleared the pole vault (11 ft. 5¾ in.). After that, with an official marking the foul line for him with a flashlight, he threw the javelin. The few spectators who stood in the drizzling gloom could barely see the shaft as he hurled it 165 ft. 1 in. It was getting on towards midnight, and Mathias had only the 1,500-meter run left to do. If he could make it in anything like decent time, the championship was his. But could he? The boy from Tulare, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Boy | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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