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Aside from the loss of Krinsky and Dennis, the varsity's major handicap was cold shooting on the strange court. The Crimson hit on only 12 of 53 attempts from the field for an average of 22 percent. Cornell's superior rebounding netted it 65 shots, and it scared on 22 attempts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Five Edges Crimson; Krinsky; Sacks Lead Scoring | 12/17/1953 | See Source »

Motorola TV Hour (alt. Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV), another worthy competitor for TV dramatic honors, is handsomely produced, well-cast and ambitiously directed. The TV Hour's only apparent handicap is a lack of good scripts. Last week's Brandenburg Gate dealt familiarly with the cold war in beleaguered Berlin, and the plot leaned heavily on devices borrowed from Carol Reed films and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. Jack Palance was effective as the present-day Sydney Carton who gives his life to free Maria Riva's husband from a Communist death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Professional Handicap. In New London, Conn., Alfred Mills, 26, broke into a bottling plant, tripped the burglar alarm, continued to ransack the premises, later explained to police who caught him: "I'm hard of hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 14, 1953 | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...that it took both my parents to hold him while they gave him hot baths to ease the tension. The results of this condition were discovered when electroencephalographic tests were made recently: the area of the brain was damaged which controls the inhibition animal impulses. A child with this handicap would have had difficulty adjusting to a favorable environment. But it is hard for anyone who has had the blessing of a loving family to realize the nightmare Billy and I lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Billy & I | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...history: the Cain Hoy Stable's Turn-To, Jockey Henry Moreno up. Owner Harry F. Guggenheim and Jockey Moreno figured in another long-shot victory this year: Dark Star in the Kentucky Derby. ' ¶At New York's Jamaica race track, the year's champion handicap horse, Greentree Stable's Tom Fool, was retired to stud with a farewell parade around the track after,' the running of the $80,400 Empire City Gold Cup (won by the Charfran Stable's Crafty Admiral). Out of the money only once in 30 starts and unbeaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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