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The sidelines teemed with children fingering the strange lacrosse sticks, gawking at the players, and postering the managers for drinks of water; while, in the background, the jolly old rugby team was sporting itself, 30-strong, all over its practice field.

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: Varsity Loses to BLC, 5-2, In Year's First Scrimmage | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

In doing so, few could avoid fascinated and furtive speculation as to just how much the Treasury would stand in the way of claims for reimbursement. The Government, which got enough milk from enough mice to make a very large cheese, pretended not to notice hidden flaws in the citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Milking the Mice | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

On such jolly occasions, the food is always bountiful, the liquor excellent and plentiful. A teetotaler herself, Mrs. Mesta sips Coca-Cola and warily watches the spirits rise around her. She likes everybody to be gay, but not to get out of hand. It is a kind of entertaining peculiarly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Widow from Oklahoma | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Nobody in the little (pop. 6,000) Netherlands town of Borculo knows anyone in Warren, Ark. personally. Nevertheless, last month the farmers, laborers, and shopkeepers of Borculo felt a sudden close kinship with the citizens of Warren. Fat, jolly Burgomaster Paul Drost had just told them what he had heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Oliebollen for Warren | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Van Patten had two years with the Lunts to perfect his Michael. His Henry Aldrich-type voice simmers down to a more mature rasp before it gets annoying, and by the time the show is over he is stealing an occasional scene from his elders. Given his fantastic American-Canadian...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: O Mistress Mine | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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