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...Quarterback Johnny Lujack had graduated; the departure of Ziggie Czarobski and All-America George Connor had left holes at both tackles. (Gritted Leahy: "You can't lose boys like that without having to start over.") And Purdue's 1948 Boilermakers, though still the underdogs, were a long gasp from an opening-game breather. To many experts, they looked like the strongest team on Notre Dame's ten-game schedule-which this year, for the first time since 1913, does not include Army...
...Japan completed (TIME, Aug. 16), retiring Lieut. General Robert Eichelberger debarked at San Francisco, acknowledged a salute with an expression that suggested thoughts of the somber past (see cut). His wife, with a happy gasp as she spotted a friend on the dock, seemed more concerned with the pleasant present...
Last week Novelist Waugh was tickling toes and cutting throats again. The Loved One, his first novel published in the U.S. since Brideshead, was in the eager hands of U.S. readers, most of whom did not know whether to gasp, hoot or holler at the uncomfortable feeling that they had been smudged with soot from a crematory. The title was Waugh's creamy trade name for a corpse. A tale of love and suicide among the morticians of a cemetery that physically resembles Hollywood's fabulous Forest Lawn (TIME, Aug. 24, 1942), The Loved One was either Novelist...
Biggest & Fastest. All this is a far cry from the elevator seen by New Yorkers at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1853. The inventor, a New England master mechanic named Elisha Graves Otis, rode up & down in it, occasionally making the crowd gasp by cutting the elevator's rope cable with a knife. Others, as far back as Archimedes, had built vertical hoists of one kind or another, but Otis was the first to build one with an automatic safety catch to keep it from falling. It was a kind of ratchet, like the gadget that prevents the spring...
...revolutionary man. Himself a former leftist enthusiast (he was the International Brigade's chief of operations in the Spanish war), Slater is content to dramatize his lore with such ability that few readers will be able to put down Conspirator before they have reached the last gasp...