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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abstractly, he began to swing his arms like propellers. The "team" began swinging, except for two guys talking in the back row. Schmitt walked on. He turned around briefly to initiate knee-bends in four counts, then jumping-jacks in two counts, then rotations in on counts...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/19/1953 | See Source »

...injured him in speech or action." Stalin purged Serebriakov, along with some millions of others, in 1937. Wrote starry-eyed Joseph E. (Mission to Moscow) Davies, who was U.S. Ambassador during the purges: "His brown eyes are exceedingly kind and gentle. A child would like to sit on his knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: Killer of the Masses | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...from a trampoline over the backs of four elephants. His mother was so determined a trouper that she kept on performing until three days before Donald was born, 27 years ago. With his parents and six brothers & sisters, Donald toured the U.S. three times before he was out of knee pants. He didn't see the inside of a school until he was ten and enrolled in a Hollywood kindergarten. By then, death had begun to stalk the O'Connor family. Today only Donald, his mother and his 47-year-old brother Jack are still alive. Donald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Song & Dance Man | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...sake of the "right" combination of Greek-letter men, draw only one line in life-the color line, think that a pin serves as the key to every door approached, judge another by her seams instead of her soul, bow to a "beta" but never bend her knee in prayer, or be humiliating but never humble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 9, 1953 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

Husky, handlebar mustached Pop Thornton is now 48 years old. He enlisted in the cavalry in 1927, began breaking Army mounts, during his first year broke all his toes, both feet and one knee. In 1937, having been demoted several times, Pop left the Army but re-enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor. During the Battle of the Bulge, he won a Bronze Star for charging a house full of Germans, capturing 14. He finished the war at a sort of halfway stage-as a corporal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Human Yo-Yo | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

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