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That night the Hutton style burst upon a relatively powerless world. Between choruses of Dipsy Doodle, she began to throw her body around as if she had no further use for it. She mugged, turned somersaults, hopped on musicians' laps and pulled their hair, fought off imaginary adversaries, tore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Side of Happiness | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

At the starter's gun, Don Gehrmann had grabbed the lead, set the pace for a slow 64-second quarter. Villanova's John Joe Barry had taken over the pace-setter's role for the next five laps; then it was FBI Man Wilt's turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Argument | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

But Levinson is a mere cipher to the main characters of the story-a silver liquid that laps around everything, distributes a subtle irony of understatement to the doings of the group, without doing much itself.

Author: By John R. W. small, | Title: Wall Around the Ghetto | 3/7/1950 | See Source »

As the gun popped at the start of the mile's eleven laps, the crowd expected

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Mile | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

Then Gehrmann slowly began to fade. "I felt kind of sick," he said the next day. "In the third quarter the other runners started going by ... I kept telling myself to stick with them and they kept passing me . . ." As the crowd roared at the action on the steep turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Mile | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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