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...students did not always look typical, but wherever they went, they created a minor whirl. Some of them tangled with the ultra-polite. London Bobbies who had to remind them that British traffic really did run on the left-hand side of the road. Some penetrated the iron curtain and became small international incidents before AMG authorities got them released from jail...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: Thousands of US Students Migrate To Europe for Summer Study, Play | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...glow seemed to spread over the whole General Assembly on its opening day of firmly fixed smiles and heavy hand-pumping. Delegates exchanged greetings with an almost perfectly uniform ritual: strong right-hand clasp, affectionate left-hand pat on the back. The official nurse, on duty just across a corridor from the General Assembly Hall, dispensed only one headache powder the first day (to a Chilean delegate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: A Time Will Come | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Coached by Harry Dallmar, a former All-American who now plays with the Philadelphia Warriors, Penn is big and fast. The Quakers are led by Sam Lyon, a six-foot four-inch center and perhaps the best in the League. His left-hand hook shot has averaged 16 points a game. Besides height, the team has an excellent set shot artist in Phil Harman...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Strong Penn Five Plays Host To Groggy Crimson Tonight | 2/19/1949 | See Source »

...Take Him Out!" Lynn Patrick was no stranger to the Rangers. For nine seasons before the war, he had been known as a bold, fleet left wing with a deadly left-hand shot. His preeminence was no gift. In Lynn's first game, in 1934, he got the puck, glided confidently toward the goal, was neatly dumped on the ice by a couple of veterans. Sneered one: "Don't hurt him, he's the boss's son." The crowd chanted: "Take him out! Take him out!" They thought he might be trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Boss's Son | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...researcher for Florida's Senator Claude Pepper and West Virginia's Harley Kilgore)-were among those previously named by Courier Elizabeth Bentley TIME, Aug. 9). Chambers had other names: Lee Pressman, onetime New Deal legal eagle, later C.I.O. counsel and currently one of Henry Wallace's left-hand men; Nathan Witt, onetime secretary for the National Labor Relations Board; Henry Collins (ex-Agriculture Department); Donald Hiss, who left the State Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Elite | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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