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Warming up, Barthel seemed as unconcerned as the crowd was excited, though he was making only his third start on an indoor track and had never seen the Garden's before. He stood respectfully for The Star-Spangled Banner, then straightened a bit more as the band struggled through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nonchalant Miler | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Bing Crosby Show (CBS-TV). The Crooner's first regular telecast, a long time abrewing, arrived last week with an unmistakable thud. The filmed show was reminiscent of many of the earliest TV efforts: Crosby spent much of his time standing in front of a stage curtain, delivering mild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

A nurse spotted a woman patient who was watching the dance with childlike wonder as she squatted cross-legged in the shadows. The nurse talked soothingly to her for a while, pushed the hair back from her face, then put the tambourine in her open hand. The patient's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Jingle Bells | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

Although he handily mastered the mannerisms of the famous comedian-the giddy, stiff-legged Cantor canter, the twittering hands, the O-mouth and popeyed stare-Brasselle could not find in himself the essential thing that makes Eddie run: the dynamo that sends through his audiences a crackle of sympathetic electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

Perfectionist Rupp thought his boys did "right well in their debut," then had a sudden coachly afterthought: "We didn't play nearly as well as we are capable." How good is Rupp's team? In preseason polls, U.S. basketball coaches ranked Kentucky No. 2, after Indiana, last season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kentucky Comeback | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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