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...played yesterday, Kirkland and Dudley fought each other to a scoreless tie through three periods of play, the Deacons finally scoring with two minutes to go on a 20-yard off-tackle run by Jerry Glynn from the T-formation. A few moments later, with Dudley passing in a frantic effort to tie the score, Bill Sharpe intercepted for Kirkland and ran, 40 yards for another touchdown...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Adams Gridders, Funsters Tie As Deacons Win 14-0 | 10/23/1946 | See Source »

There was a lot of reality, too, they said. Frantic Democratic candidates were phoning in: "What's the use of even having an election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Belly Politics | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...years. The concert had been sold out weeks in advance. In the audience, earnest young piano students used scores to follow her program of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Manhattan's concertgoers found her style cool, careful and womanly: a grateful contrast to some of the pedal pounding and frantic gymnastics that passes for virtuosity these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Contrast | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Direction committees of France's three major parties scurried into conference. Burly Communist Leader Jacques Duclos made a frantic appeal to reluctant Socialists for left-wing unity. Leaders of the M.R.P., which stood to lose the most members to the new Gaullist party, hastened to make further changes in the constitution to appease waverers. Then the Assembly adopted the draft constitution on its first reading. Now it was up to the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Anarchy or Dictatorship | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...keep the story sewed up, Pou drove to Lexington, Miss., manned Prosecutor Barrett's telephone during his absence. When frantic newsmen telephoned for details from the West Coast, New York and other parts of the U.S., he purred that the prosecutor would be "back tomorrow" and would be glad to talk with them then. At week's end, the Morning Star was still holding a dollar for its tipster. He had not left his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: $1 Scoop | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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