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...Hero Jerry, a TV repairman whose knob is on the fritz, stands to inherit a billion dollars, but he doesn't know it. An unscrupulous attorney (Zachary Scott) and his sinister sidekick (Jack Weston) know it very well, and they decide to make worm food of Jerry before Jerry finds out. The sidekick tries to run him down with his big, black, shark-shaped limousine-Jerry falls in a manhole just in time. The sidekick tries to prang him with a high-powered rifle-Jerry is so jerky that the punk just can't hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Poor Fish | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...before the start of World War II, Bohr made a trip to the U.S. Just as his ship was about to leave Copenhagen, two German refugee physicists, Lise Meitner and O. R. Frisch, rushed aboard with a dismaying report. They had just heard that German Chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in Berlin had split the uranium atom. This was atomic fission, and with it the Nazis might soon be able to build an atomic bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physics: A Man of the Century | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...that gave the Crimson its 10 to 6 margin. Wood won again in 1930. He threw two touchdown passes as Harvard triumphed 13-0. The strong Crimson line bottled up Booth almost completely and, the CRIMSON reported, made him "look like an average back, flashy but unconvincing, ion by Fritz Drill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Series Filled With Surprises; Eli Manager Scored Point In '52 | 11/24/1962 | See Source »

...bankers can thus hand-pick many a top corporate executive, as they did Fritz-Aurel Goergen of the Henschel locomotive works. The supervisory boards of German companies are so heavy with bankers that the government has limited each banker to 20 memberships. Special permission to have more, however, has been given to Hermann Abs, politically potent chief of the Deutsche Bank. His current total: 24 directorships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Where Bankers Are Boss | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Technically the Panthers play class-B ball-not in the same league as the class-AAAA juggernauts from the big-city schools in Dallas. But to the 1,000 or more fiercely partisan fans who cram old Fritz Pfluger's renovated cow pasture for each home game, they seem as good as the pros. Since 1958 they have scored 2,073 points to the opposition's 223, and it looks as if it may be Pflugerville über alles forever. Toddlers practice cross-body blocks under the goal posts while the high-schoolers pummel their opponents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pflugerville | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

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