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Shortly before noon, jug-eared Ewell Blackwell walked onto the turf at Chicago's Wrigley Field. It was an hour and a half before game time. He looked around, then strolled nonchalantly to the third-base dugout. Someone offered him a chew of tobacco and asked if he was nervous. The most talked-about pitcher of the year waved away the tobacco and said: "Naw, I don't get nervous any more. Last year I used to be nervous as a cat before a game, and then I found it made me wild in the early innings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Man Who Doesn't Worry | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Governor. To Alaskans who pine for the old order, and to those who long for something new, one man symbolizes the Territory's turbulent stirrings. Throughout his 7½ years in office, chunky, jug-eared Dr. Ernest Gruening, 60, Alaska's New Dealish Territorial Governor, has been an advocate of change and a figure of controversy. He has been during most of his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Promised Land | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...French horn, as Miller had planned. Two of the same arrangers were making the band sound the old way (Tex is no good at arranging). It was easy because 19 of Miller's oldtimers were still there. Such jump pieces as Tuxedo Junction and Little Brown Jug, which the band played more to amuse itself than the customers, had changed a little, but the boys still did the corny hat-throwing stunts that had drawn Miller fans around the bandstand. Said Tex: "It's corny, but Glenn was one for commercial corn. If you don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sweet Corn at Glen Island | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...peasant's daughter, but she had been beautiful in her youth, when she went to Shanghai in the '20s and studied Communism. Now, at 46, after some advanced studies in Moscow and nine years in Jap prisons, she was tuberculous and no longer beautiful. But baggy-eyed, jug-eared Chinese General Chen Yi, looking back on the worst month of his Formosa governorship, would never forget the woman known as Hsieh Hsüeh-hung-Thanks Snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Snow Red & Moon Angel | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...cannot buy a copy of PUBLICK OCCURRENCES. It is not exposed on the Public Marts, nor is it hawked about by street urchins . . . but we might be inveigled into a bit of Honest Barter. ., . . If you produce a joint of Ham, a shaving Lotion, a good Bourbon, a jug of maple syrup or any other good and honest item then we are sometimes in the mood to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Under New Management | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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