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...frame. Mouse Kasarjian led off by knocking a long triple to right center which centerfielder Bill Dickson reached but failed to hold. After Brigham had struck out, Tom Bergantino tapped a slow roller down the third base line, and Kasarjian just beat the throw to the plate with a head-first slide...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Baseball Varsity Nips Indians, 5-4, In Bid for Its First League Title | 5/15/1958 | See Source »

after a 40-m.p.h. head-first slide of nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 4, 1952 | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...pupils. Called a born criminal by his father, the boy delighted in dreaming up ingenious punishments. Sometimes he forced the students to empty huge garbage cans and then refill them piece by piece with their bare hands. One day the students rebelled and jammed the rector's son head-first into an empty can. An investigation followed. The rector was dismissed and Student Hirthammer lost sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mr. & Mrs. | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...there; but he landed his first poem (in a Greenwich Village magazine) when he was 16. When his mother filed petition for divorce Harold dropped out of school, was put on an allowance and allowed to go to Manhattan, theoretically to tutor for college. Instead of tutoring, he plunged head-first into Greenwich Village life. By the time he had his next few poems published he had begun to sign himself Hart Crane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Progress | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...Head-First Habit Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

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