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Midway through the opening period, Bob Farnham put Dunster in front again, but Leverett defenseman Andy Smith slipped a 30-foot shot into the Funster cage to knot the score once more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett's Sextet Tops Dunster, 3-2 | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

...smallest governor"; conscious of his size and his Italian extraction, he says, "I've always felt that there were two strikes against me, and that to succeed I had to do a better job than anyone else." He dresses so carefully it sometimes takes him 15 minutes to knot his tie, and he is apt to be practicing speeches aloud while doing it. Even Rhode Island's long-dominant Irish politicians like him, partly because on March 17 each year, John Orlando Pastore contracts his name to John O'Pastore, in honor of i) his birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Faces | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...began with Psyche, who did not allow herself to be seen in public without her chignon, and gave to modern females the chignon style called the Psyche knot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chignon or Chihuahua | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...notice. But last week it looked as if the time had come to start worrying about cargo ships too. Vice Admiral Edward Lull Cochrane (Ret.), Federal Maritime Administrator, warned that the U.S. did not have enough fast cargo ships. Of the mothball fleet, 1,528 were lumbering 10-knot Liberties. Only 205 were 15-knot Victory ships and last week 130 had already been put to work on the Korean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full Steam Ahead? | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...Devil's Children. The colonists had plenty else to concern them besides the Indians. In New England, especially, the Devil made trouble. "Exhibiting himself ordinarily as a small black man," says that great theological gossip, Cotton Mather, the fiend "decoyed a fearful knot of proud, froward, ignorant, envious, and malicious creatures to lift themselves in his horrid service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Looking Glass | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

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