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Since 1931, when Cornelius McGillicuddy had his last pennant-winning wonder boys, the Philadelphia Athletics had been a consistent team: the most weak-kneed in the American League. The man the baseball writers once considered a genius came to be regarded as a quaint old character content with teams so cheap that they made a profit even when they finished in the cellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Is Connie Kidding? | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Captain Holden of the Crimson finally threw himself in front of Ames, and stopped him. Unfortunately, he was kneed in the chest, which was seriously pushed in. As he was carried off the field, Holden exhorted the team not to worry about him, but to beat Princeton. This they did, and later, when a number of surgeons were having a consultation on whether to operate, Holden sneezed, and his chest returned to normal...

Author: By Morman S. Poser, | Title: Football in '80s Wild and Woolly, Featuring Pulled Whiskers, Flying Wedge, Fancy Kicking | 10/31/1947 | See Source »

...last year, charged Raiden, he had been sent to Raft by 19-year-old Betty Doss to recover some finery which Raft had given her and then yanked back. While one of Raft's friends held him, the attorney complained, Raft gave him a shellacking, and then kneed him. So now Raiden sued for $300,000. Commented Raft: "That's pretty good, but I don't know what it's all about." Neither did she, said red-haired Miss Doss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Movers & Shakers | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...ranking U.S. anthropologist, and probably wished she hadn't. How she stacks, according to Dr. Wilton M. Krogman of the University of Chicago: 5 ft. 3 in., 135 lbs. (fattish), has "tires" just below the waist and stenographer's-spread standing up, oftener than not is knock-kneed and potbellied, waddles when she walks, and "only goes out two inches from the chest to the bust-line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Almost all the sculpture was in clay, uninhibited, unschooled, and surprisingly modern-looking. One figure, which looked like one of Disney's Seven Dwarfs, stood bent-kneed, bat in hand, as if timidly waiting for the next pitch. Another was a subtle, tender caricature of a man's face with the head and body of a fat, droll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Having a Good Time | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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