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Shepard goes on to state that "the contest for positions is the keenest it's been in years." The second five beat the starters in two scrimmages earlier in the week. These ten men, all of them juniors and seniors except Bowman, will play the leads on this tour; of some stature, their average height is a little over six feet...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: 'Old Faces of 1953-4' | 12/5/1953 | See Source »

...charger in Venice or George Ill's famous "copper horse" at Windsor, and it seemed to enjoy cutting a dash. When it had crawled another two quick steps, it ended in the same grand pose. The nurse made ready to turn a page and again cried "Naughty" with keenest indignation. She turned the page. Her eyes and sharp little nose were directed at the next sentence on the top of the new page even before she had turned it. "Naughty, come back at once." The baby, still in mid-prance, even curving one wrist in an affected manner which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: ROMANCE | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

Gloomy View. Purchasing agents, the nation's keenest judges of buying trends, reported that for the fifth consecutive month business has trimmed its inventories; they counted twice as many production declines as increases. Department store sales were still below last year's, and commodity prices kept on falling (e.g., meat, cotton, wheat, pulp and paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Back to Normal | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...tones it damns the left for using. In defending Senator McCarthy, for example, it calls his critics "mad" people who, like Pavlov's dogs, "foam" at the mouth every time his name is mentioned. It extravagantly hails John T. Flynn (The Road Ahead, While You Slept) as the "keenest journalist of our day," although many rightists think Flynn's hatred of Franklin Roosevelt has blinded his once sharp reporter's eye. The Freeman itself is often so blinded by its own extreme right-wing prejudices that it labels " 'liberal' Republicans" (i.e., those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pull to the Right | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...Grand Central and getting on a train." Most often she went to New Haven, where she had a boy friend named Johnny Johnson. He and his three roommates sometimes sneaked Patrice into their dormitory room, where she 'would study with them. Johnson thought she had "one of the keenest uneducated minds I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soprano from Spokane | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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