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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football "every bit as much fun as college football and more. Maybe the motivating force is extra money-but it's for the wife and kiddies [he has two] rather than for the good old alumni. I guess I don't like work and I'm too lazy to steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Left-Hander | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...landscapes," Hopkinson explained I'm concerned with the flow of line in a mountain or a tree-the gesture of the thing." To capture it he works even faster than most watercolorists, using fluid and staccato strokes of vibrant color, but unlike more abstract moderns he never lets "the gesture of the thing" obscure the thing itself. "Being a sentimentalist, I want to get across the pleasure of what I see in nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Finding the Fine Things | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Later, in Boston's Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Plastic Surgeon Edgar M. Holmes loosened her tongue (held fast by scar tissue), closed the hole in the roof of her mouth, replaced the bones in the nose by a graft from the hip bone. In a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Holmes reported on the outcome of the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shotgun Surgery | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Higher Education. In Teaneck, N.J., Louis Rich, 85, enrolled as a freshman at Bergen Junior College, explained: "I'm sick & tired of just the movies and radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...HYRC will introduce the winners of its two recent contests at the celebration. Lester L. Ward '52 has received a free Yale weekend for the best essay on "Why Dewey Should be Elected," while Donald M. Long '49 will get a biography of Herbert Hoover for writing "The Worst Thing a Republican Can be Called in 12 Words or Less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Politicians Schedule Finales Tonight | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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