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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported that Lady Beatty spatted with Sinatra and "drove off in a Huff [Nov. 10]." It was not a Huff, but a Dudgeon. It is easy to understand how this mistake was made. It was not one of the old-model high Dudgeons, but one of the new low ones, which are frequently mistaken for Huffs, particularly when there is any fog about. I am quite sure of the facts in this matter, as I happened to be driving by in my 1958 Dilemma at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...level. But its barrel-chested natives, after generations of exposure to perpetual oxygen shortage, have a lung structure and blood pattern especially adapted to extract full value from the last available whiff of oxygen (TIME, Jan. 20). They literally and habitually work like navvies with nary a huff or puff, even go to 16,000 ft. to "relax" by playing a murderously fast game of soccer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Way Station to Space | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...Sullivan, Jeremia J., Jr. '61 E 20 5.11 179 Cambridge, Mass. 83 Aadalen, Richard J. '61 E 19 6.3 195 Red Wing, Minn. 84 Keohane, Harold J. '60 E 21 6.2 186 Arlington, Mass. 85 Hershon, Stuart J. '59 E 20 6.3 210 Long Beach, N. Y. 86 Huff, Warren D. '59 E 21 6.2 210 Plymouth, Mich. 87 Hamilton, Douglas L. '61 E 19 6.3 200 Manhasset, N. Y. 88 Messenbaugh, Robert L. '61 E 19 6.2 195 Oklahoma City, Okla...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Squad | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...Mass. 82 Sullivan, Jeremia J., Jr. '61 E 20 5.11 179 Cambridge, Mass. 83 Aadalen, Richard J. '61 E 19 6.3 195 Red Wing, Minn. 84 Keohane, Harold J. '60 E 21 6.2 186 Arlington, Mass. 85 Hershon, Stuart J. '59 E 20 6.3 210 Long Beach, N.Y. 86 Huff, Warren D. '59 E 21 6.2 210 Plymouth, Mich. 87 Hamilton, Douglas L. '61 E 19 6.3 200 Manhasset, N.Y. 88 Messenbaugh, Robert L. '61 E 19 6.2 195 Oklahoma City, Okla. The Harvard Coaching Staff: John M. Yovicsin, Ted Schmitt, Alex Bell, Roger Robinson, James Lentz, Norm Shepard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Squad | 11/15/1958 | See Source »

School of No Knocks. In Milwaukee Ronald O. Huff drove into a filling station, told the attendant "never mind the the gas." pulled out a pistol and robbed him of $33, was caught by police after his car ran out of gas eight blocks away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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