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...wasn't. A flick of the whip brought him on again, across the line almost two lengths ahead. John P. Grier was never the same again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Red | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...every evening David Lilienthal leaves his office, checks out at the basement desk and steps into his black sedan, a manila envelope of homework under his arm. Around the Public Health Service building the floodlights flick on. Along the terraces, the armed sentries take up their patrol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: On the Other Side of the Moon | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

Manolete, with a flick of the wrist, will transfer the bull's attention back to the muleta. Even if the bull, as it sometimes does, starts to charge toward the man, with his horns almost touching him, Manolete can stand there and put his life in the magic of his wrist. The Spaniards call this the "moment of jurisdiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: No. 2 1 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...cities, as always, the warnings of conflict and disorder were sharpest. Throngs of wartime jobholders were idle. In sweltering Calcutta, it took but the flick of a Moslem cigaret butt against the flanks of a sacred Hindu cow, or a Hindu tonga driver's bumping a Moslem child, to start a fight that would engulf the city. Last week Calcutta was still divided into "Pakistan" and "Hindustan" quarters, with strong points bristling with .barbed wire and machine guns. A Hindu driver dared not cross into a Moslem quarter, nor a Moslem into "Hindustan." In Bombay, where Hindus and Moslems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: End of Forever | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...pound shot put--Won by Jackson (H); second, Miller (RIS); third, Flick (B); fourth, Garland (H). Distance--48 ft., 4 1/2 in. 16-pound hammer throw--Won by Bennett (B); second, Fisher (H); third, Felton (H); fourth, Miller (RIS). Distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Trails Rl State, Conquers Brown in Tri-Meet | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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