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...comet of the 12th Magnitude--invisible to the naked eye--was reported by the University yesterday. The new body was observed at the Lick Observatory, San Jose, California on July 18 and again on July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Reports Discovery Of New 12th Magnitude Comet | 7/25/1947 | See Source »

...toting their marbles to school in Roanoke, Va. At recess, there were shrill cries of "knuckle-down tight" and "whoa marble," as the boys plunked nibs out of a 10ft. ring. The game was strictly for keeps, and towheaded, ten-year-old Larry Vinson (known around school as "Big Lick") suffered the penalty of being too good. He complained: "I broke every kid in school . . . can't get anybody to play with me any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Deadeyes at Wildwood | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Last week, with his rabbit's foot dangling at his belt, Roanoke's champ coolly sized up 39 rival deadeye marbles champs from Montana to Georgia. Larry had to lick them all to win the 23rd annual National Marbles Tournament at Wildwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Deadeyes at Wildwood | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...program. Two billion dollars yearly would almost do that. We wonder how far $2 billion would go towards feeding the hungry peoples of the world. Could a lasting peace be established if $2 billion yearly were given to the church for advancing Christianity in foreign lands? . . . Would $2 billion lick cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Nyheter labeled him an "apostle of hypocrisy," and said that Brundage came from a land where a "top tennis player doesn't go to a tournament for less than $500 to $800 . . . and their university sports are the world's biggest amateur fraud." Idrottsbladet got in a lick: "It took Our Lord 800,000,000 years to create the world of today. How long a time will it take Mr. Brundage to learn to understand it?" (Sweden was mad because its track heroes-Gunder Hägg and Arne Andersson-had been barred from amateur ranks a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Question of Definition | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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