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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plays to Pay Dirt. From its 11-yd. line a few minutes later, grim, white-jerseyed Army began to march. Quarterback Arnold ("The Pope") Galiffa took a knowing look at Michigan's four-man line and tried his pony backfield (Fischl, Cain and Kuckhahn) off the flanks. Michigan's defense, rated the most ingenious in collegiate football, spread out; Galiffa hit the center with a new play (called a "Galiffa keep") designed especially for Michigan. He deftly mixed in three completed passes. In ten plays, Army had a touchdown. At halftime the Cadets had a 14-0 lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Obsession | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Germany Year Zero. Roberto Rossellini's grim, graphic story of a twelve-year-old boy among the human, rubble of Germany's occupation (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...subsidies of merchant shipping. Alice, having stayed too long in Wonderland, might not know that the party that had no issue in last year's election might easily create one for 1950 and 1952 by talking, talking, talking about the "welfare state" as if the words really have a grim, solid meaning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Lithe and Slimy" | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

Germany Year Zero. Roberto Rossellini's grim, graphic story of a twelve-year-old boy among the human rubble of Germany's occupation (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Chromatics & Hash. The cantata itself had been whooped up, among others, by Composer Roy Harris ("a sense of strength ... I wonder where Grandstaff heard choral singing so brilliant"), and Big Spring bigwigs had watered down the Tennessee authorities. Last week, accompanied by a grim, 200-lb., two-gunned Big Spring sheriff, R. E. Wolf, and a smiling Shine Philips, Composer Grandstaff was flown to Texas by private plane to hear his cantata sung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Habitual Composer | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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