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Complications set in, and after years of wearing a brace and walking on crutches, Norris was left with one leg shorter than the other and a noticeable limp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmer Wins AAU Crown Despite Crippled Leg | 8/28/1947 | See Source »

Under her own power, the wounded Micmac managed to limp into port. Naval experts were undecided whether she would ever sail again. The Navy last week held a court of inquiry into the worst peacetime disaster in R.C.N. history: six men killed, five "missing," 16 hospitalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Homecoming | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...Brodowsky, in the state of São Paulo. One of twelve children, Candido began painting as a boy; itinerant painters who were redecorating the village church let him do the stars on the ceiling. Portinari broke his leg in a village football game, giving him a permanent limp. From then on, unable to play as his fellows did, he worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sad Pictures | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...turned out in London to cheer it, although Lloyd George had just warned: "You must not run a thing like this too hard. . . . Every failure at this stage is a ruinous one. It is like the fall of an infant; it may get a broken spine and limp for the rest of its days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Town Meeting of Two Worlds | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...Million Needles. Moische was not any more attractive than the Europe that made him. He was dark and haggard, with sunken eyes, greasy hair and a limp. Yet Moische's story was a kind of 20th Century epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: The Will to Live | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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