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...lack of undergraduate vigor at Yale became only too clear last year in the Daily's weak-kneed failure to publish on Saturdays. Anyone might have expected this moral irresolution at Yale, but we view with astonishment the present inadequacies of those impeccable gentlemen from New Jersey. The Daily Princetonian has been parodied at least three times in the last three years, and the Tiger has not retaliated. Even when Princeton's proud flag disappeared, our kittenish friends did nothing to redeem this disgrace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Rags | 11/5/1955 | See Source »

...develops a bad case of jitters. At novel's end, he goes in search of the great confidence man himself and, in a sardonic, O. Henry-sudden finale, finds Dr. Modesto rattling the bars in a progressive insane asylum. Hal Hingham is as appealing as he is weak-kneed, and Author Harrington manages to squeeze a wry, comic moral out of his dilemma: self-help is really an inside job, and to pull it off successfully, one must have a self to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Help Spoof | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...When Presidential Secretary Steve Early kneed a New York Negro policeman in the groin a week before the 1940 elections, Ickes was set to work re-wooing the Negro vote. Harry Hopkins, said Ickes, called and "wanted me to get hold of Marian Anderson to have her attend a meeting and sing or issue a statement." Marian sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Nuff Said | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...neck with a wicked elbow. By the middle of the second round, both fighters were smeared with blood. The music rose to a frenzied tattoo. With every blow, the 8,000 Thais in the stadium chanted for more blood. Sriswasdi jerked Kaeh's head down and kneed him viciously under the chin, blocked a feeble counterpunch, spun his man around and jabbed at his ribs with both elbows. Dazed, his opponent backed away. Sriswasdi took aim and kicked him in the groin, finished him off with a knee in the belly. The crowd screamed approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...Entrez done, Monsieur," said a reserve police colonel. "The session is about to begin." He smiled broadly, then hit a middle-aged Arab with his right fist, below the belt. As the Arab went down, the colonel kneed him in the groin. The Arab tried to get up; another cop caught him across the jaw with a club. Down went the Arab and the next cop kicked him, twice. He got up again and ran into the arms of still another policeman, who poked him into a sitting position with the muzzle of a carbine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MOROCCO: Running the Gauntlet | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

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