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...jockey costume, he looks deceptively thin. Most of his 112 pounds are padded about muscular shoulders, which taper to a slim waist and toothpick legs. In the jockeys' room, where he is cock of the walk, he is by turns charming and churlish, chatty and mum (he likes to read between races ? usually bestselling novels). Sometimes, when another rider has done something in a race he doesn't like, his dander rises and he tosses equipment around the room. He can swear as proficiently as any jockey, but when the occasion calls he can speak perfect parlor English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...death, Manhattan's PM had won three reprieves from Owner Marshall Field. Last week, he finally found a buyer. He sold a "majority interest" in his tabloid to San Francisco Lawyer Bartley C. Crum and Joseph Barnes, foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune. They were mum on how much they paid-and who was backing them. But they said they had "adequate" cash to continue PM, now losing $15,000 a week. (Minority Stockholder Field will still foot part of the loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lease on Life | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...campaigner, he stumps tirelessly, touring the whole 1,000-mile length of the state with his driver, shaking hands and making small talk. Until he announced for the presidency last November, he stuck to California problems, kept mum on most national and international issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: WARREN | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Last week McDonald was sure that he had finally tuned in on his market. He announced that Zenith's hearing-aid division had chalked up a handsome profit, though he was mum on the figures (they "were too good to say anything about to competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Low Tone | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Though Hill Jr. kept mum on his plans, tobaccomen did not think he intended to stay out of the company his grandfather and father had built to its present size.The scuttlebutt was that Hill Jr. hoped to stir up enough support from stockholders to get back in on his own terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The Prince Steps Down | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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