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...next 22.3 seconds everyone held his breath. Almost before anybody knew it, four-year-old Princess had daylighted Shue Fly by a length and a half and huge sums of money were changing hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Daylighted | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Last week, as a West Coast waterfront arbitrator considered his case, Brother True Knowledge still hoped to work on the waterfront, but he was learning how to be a carpenter-just in case. He was also deriving comfort from Loving Jeremiah, a four-year-old Negro boy he had adopted three years ago. Sang Loving Jeremiah: "I want to be rolled up, I want to be wrapped up, I want to be tied up in his will, and let the rest of the world roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Waterfront Conchie | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...confused with flaxen-haired, four-year-old Charley Ross, who disappeared in 1874, victim of a widely heralded Philadelphia kidnaping, or with President Truman's press secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Waterfront Conchie | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...civic fiesta, a flight over the four-year-old volcano Paricutin, and lunch among the pyramids of Teotihuacán were not all the Mexicans had programmed for Harry Truman's three-day visit. They also had some problems they wanted to discuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Visitor | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Early one morning last week, in East Orange, N.J., four-year-old Tommy Stanley got hold of half an orange. He tried to swallow it, got it stuck in his throat, choked & choked. His father banged him futilely on the back, then yelled for a doctor. Luckily, there was one in the house -Tommy's uncle. Dr. Thomas A. Stanley (a postgraduate surgery student) saw that Tommy was strangling. He seized a kitchen carving knife; there was no time to sterilize it, nor for an anesthetic. While Papa and Mama held Tommy flat on the living room couch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor in the House | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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