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...last nail hammered into the coffin of 1938 baseball (see p. 49), U. S. citizens last week turned their attention toward the wriggling three-weeks-old college football season. Monday-morning-quarterbacks began to appraise this year's players, prognosticate what teams would finish on top of the heap around Thanksgiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Third Saturday | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...reporter entered he room than he was informed by one of the Hicks associated that he was not welcome. At a sign of protest, the three grabbed him by the shoulders and the sent of his pants, respectively, and neatly dispatched him onto the hall floor in a heap, shamming the door behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HICKS HAS BOSTON REPORTER JUNKED OUTSIDE ADAMS ROOM | 10/14/1938 | See Source »

...would renominate (and thus virtually reelect) lean, jut-jawed Senator Gerald Prentice Nye, or send to Washington hulking, jut-jawed Governor William Langer instead. Senator Nye, once a "radical," now a learned apostle of Neutrality, has for twelve years been at the top of North Dakota's political heap. But Governor Langer (whom the Federal Government tried, and failed, to jail in 1934 for openly levying on Relief clients for his campaign funds), called a demagogue by his opponents, a champion by his friends, is a potent vote getter. Mr. Langer, once Mr. Nye's good friend, called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH DAKOTA: Nye Squeak | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Midway in a four weeks layoff from Ivy League baseball, the Varsity nine has retained its position on top of the circuit heap though idle, with seven wins and two defeats. Only Dartmouth has a possible chance of passing the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IDLE MITCHELLMEN NEAR LEAGUE TITLE | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

...United We Fly." DC-4 is Donald Douglas' big baby, but three years ago it was a gleam in another man's eye. William A. Patterson, president of United Air Lines, is a small man, quick-moving, quick-witted. In his Chicago office his papers heap two desks. Between the desks, in a swivel chair with well-oiled casters, Mr. Patterson shuttles back & forth. What has made the papers so many and the shuttling so nervous was a bad situation and a good idea. The bad situation: the wasteful competition between U. S. airlines, particularly in independently developing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: DC-4 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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