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...other effects take over. As the giant sound waves rocket around the room, White and his assistants feel their eyes go out of focus. Their muscles jerk and their jaws drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quicker Than the Ear | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...dime bounced on the bar and a voice replied: "He'll hit ... but whaddya get from Durocher? He ain't lookin' over the rookies. Who's gonna be on first? Third base's wide open. Only three positions sewed down. The jerk! Gimme a libation, Eddie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Lip | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...idea was simple. The riders would try to jerk the head off the goose's neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Ancient Sport | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...crowd yelled: "Let the Champ try!" "The Champ," the fourth rider, tried. He gave the now lolling head a tremendous jerk. But bone and sinew held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Ancient Sport | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...difficult and against his nature to insist on "bankers' collateral" on every loan he makes to ex-servicemen. Russell finds the sledding tough and believes that his sympathetic parents and girlfriend have only pity for his plight. Andrews runs into trouble--with a floozy boomtown bride, with his soda-jerk job, and with March's young daughter, played by Teresa Wright, with whom he falls in love. All this adds up to considerable difficulty, and it takes Goldwyn & Co. exactly 163 minutes of screen time to wind the show up happily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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