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...reasonably sure thing was that college football this fall would be worth watching. Many of the name coaches (Harvard's Dick Harlow, Minnesota's Bernie Bierman, Fordham's Sleepy Jim Crowley, Iowa's Hunk Anderson) had gone into the services. The old hands still on the job were short of time if not talent, would have a hard time putting together the kind of precision machine that football fans had been accustomed to watching. Especially to new coaches, who saw a chance to make a quick reputation, the possibilities of a wide-open game, full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Open Season | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...been acknowledged by a torrent of military fan mail. Comedian Bob Hope closed one Command Performance broadcast with the remark that if the boys wanted Songstress Ginny Simms to purr another number, "just tear off the top of a Zero and send it in." The boys sent a big hunk of wing with the Rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Shows | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...small town of Threerivers, Calif., the largest piece of wood carving in the U.S.* has been under way since last autumn. Dark-haired, muscular Sculptor Carroll Barnes has been chopping away at a 22-ton hunk of Sequoia gigantea (world's largest tree), gradually carving it into a gigantic statue of the lumberman's legendary hero, Paul Bunyan, and his blue ox, Babe. Last week, depressed by poor returns from his first one-man show in San Francisco, Barnes had a mind to hang a "war casualty" sign on Paul and get a job driving a tractor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tree Carver | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...output per cow climbed from 3,7431b. to 4,742 lb. annually. (Really good cows average over 8,000 lb.) The U.S. now gets more cheese than it can use or ship to its allies; Agriculture Secretary Wickard recently told newsmen to put two pieces of cheese on every hunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Changing American Farm | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Cinemactor Victor ("The Beautiful Hunk") Mature enlisted in the Coast Guard in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 13, 1942 | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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