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...test his grip, squeezed the needle right off the dial and immediately began bawling for a meter that could show just how strong he really was. The grind had hardly begun when a member of the Polish emigre team tried to bump Italian Ace Dino Bruni into the gutter. Bruni kept his balance, but one of his volatile teammates unfastened his bicycle pump and bent it over the Pole's head. Out of Lodz, hell-bent for Stalingrod in the fourth lap, the pack got handlebars tangled, and 25 riders dived into a mass pratfall. Shortly afterwards an East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Peace Pedalers | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...Germany's Peasants' War, the 1840 Silesian Weavers' Revolt and the women's dance around the guillotine inspired by Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities that gave her the subjects to express her greatest themes. Kaiser Wilhelm II called her work "art of the gutter," refused to award her a gold medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Image of Everywoman | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

Bales of It. Dr. Milton Krop was not the brightest penny that ever came out of the gutter, but for once in his life he thought fast: with that heart of his, he could hardly last more than two years, but he was still young enough to have a little fun before the finish. Fun costs money. Well, the girl would have money, bales of it, as soon as the estate was settled. He looked her over. "Hair skinned back, big nose. Skin color like a mushroom . . . nothing clothes." He thought: "What have I got to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Awful It Is to Be Milt | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

Cars parked overnight, especially on side streets, according to Dunphy, pose the greatest problem for the sweepers. "If you could get the cars moving," Dunphy said, "the city's four mechanical sweepers could do many more gutter-miles a night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parked Cars Delay Storm Cleanup Job | 4/17/1956 | See Source »

...Negro trade, so you can see how it is." Ford efforts to combat the criticism have been less than successful. The Memphis assembly plant, for example, began pasting its car windows with stickers, reading: "Built in the South by Mid-Southerners." One result: the slogan led to such gutter parodies as: "Built in Africa by Apes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: The Land of Boycott | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

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