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...third annual battle between Blue & Gray. The Yankees had a powerful team, led by Cornell's All-America Quarterback Walter Matuszczak. But the Rebels were 2-to-1 favorites. They had a formidable air attack in North Carolina's Jim Lalanne and Hardin-Simmons' Owen Goodnight. Sure enough, Goodnight's tossing scored two touchdowns for the South. But when it came to kicking the extra points, the Rebels fell short. Not so the Yankees. They scored two touchdowns too, kicked their extra points with unerring accuracy, took the Rebels, 14-to-12-their second victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blue & Gray | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

After arguing all evening against Novelist Thomas Mann's and Educator Robert Maynard Hutchins' view that Chicago was a city of crime, stocky, curly-headed Lloyd Downs Lewis, Chicago Daily News sports editor, drama critic, historian (Chicago-The History of Its Reputation), bade Host Hutchins goodnight, departed. In the street Editor Lewis & wife met three robbers, surrendered $8 cash, a mink coat, $4,350 worth of jewelry. Returning to the house, he announced ruefully: "I take back everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...Miss Kay will not be regarded as stuffy and old-fashioned. "If I should go out with a fellow I have known well for quite a long time, and whom I know to be respected by everyone, I see no harm in his kissing me goodnight. I would still respect him just as much as ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russell Baiter's Daughter Defends Sex, Goodnight Kiss | 4/18/1940 | See Source »

Ruppel himself set the pace in the page-one headlines, which he always wrote. A Ruppel classic: "GOODNIGHT MY DARLING" (in white across a full-page cut of William Powell leaving Jean Harlow's funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shifts | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...frankly inhospitable, Zeigley coldly suggested that the intruder leave. "All right," he said resignedly, turning ent the light. "Goodnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burglar Discovered in Wigglesworth Room by Inhospitable Freshman | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

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