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...dizzied by the linoleum-like pattern of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, dismayed by the necrophilic horror of Albright's Woman, and dumbfounded by Joan Miro's Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird-in which the "Person" is a leg with an eye in its kneecap, the "Stone" is an egg trailing a dotted line, and the "Bird" looks like an unworkable bow & arrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Surprise! | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...belie his awkward-looking size (6 ft. 4½ in., 235 Ibs.). The 29-year-old Negro was a sensation last year with the San Diego Padres on the West Coast. In less than half a season there, he hit 25 home runs (some while playing with a broken kneecap), but when Cleveland called him up last August after a knee operation, Easter was not ready for the big time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big League | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...Petty Officer Harry Greening stood patiently at the end of the line, with an injured hand. The Red fire got hotter. Greening moved up: "Excuse me, sir, but I think I ought to get looked after a bit sooner now. I've been hit again." He was; his kneecap had been shot away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shore Battery | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...findings. Last week three of the doctor's patients were easily identifiable as Cardinals. It was no secret either that the 1949 pennant hopes of the New York Giants would rise or fall on how skillfully Doc Hyland carved a bone growth from Catcher Walker Cooper's kneecap this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Doc | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...half hour later Mrs. Kosenkina was under police guard at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital. She had a broken leg and kneecap and internal injuries. She would be hospitalized for at least three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The House on 61st Street | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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