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On the southern front, the job of leading the breakthrough from the Naktong went to Lieut. Robert W. Baker, 25, hamhanded, barrel-chested commander of Company C, yoth Tank Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: From the Naktong | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Popovich was a hamhanded, 6 ft. 3 in. Montenegrin hillbilly who had quit his medical studies in Belgrade to fight with the Reds in the Spanish Civil War. In 1938, in Paris, he met the new secretary of the Yugoslav Communist Party, one Tito, who took a liking to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Double Talk | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

For The Wine of Etna's hero, hulking, hamhanded Sergeant Craddock, the order to move back into battle was heartbreaking. With war-widowed Graziella, he had discovered a passion which his own wife back in England had denied him. But Graziella got nowhere when she pleaded with him to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Enemy's Women | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Missouri. A Republican swell is running -for many Missourians are not proud of their native son in the White House. Harry Truman's appointed successor, hamhanded Senator Frank Briggs, will probably lose to neat, conservative, colorless James P. Kem, unless the Pendergast machine in Kansas City and the P.A.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Senate Sweepstakes | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Like a schoolmaster caning a child and then roaring that he must not weep, the President had said: "Until this job is done, until this war is won, we will not talk of burdens." Congressmen crept off into their cloakrooms to groan in quiet-all except the good gooseherds of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Care of the Goose | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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