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...neither a cultural program nor world-encircling organizational plans. He was simply himself, going his own path, fighting his way through the problems of faith that were laid upon him." Lilje quotes Luther's own statement: "God has led me into all this 'like a blind nag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reformation Anniversary | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...lead to McArthur, 16-17. The final event, horseback riding over a 4,000-meter course and 25 jumps, was one of Troy's specialties. McArthur, a fledgling rider, finished a surprising fourth. Troy never even finished. His mount, like McArthur's, was an aged, retired Army nag borrowed from Fort Riley, Kans. because the U.S. Military Academy has none of its own. Troy's horse got halfway around the course and fell in a dead faint from the exertion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Private First Class | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

Says Gibbs : "They may be refugees from all kinds of things -from a nag ging wife, for instance." The tales they tell must be checked thoroughly. In some cases, dozens of news tips are put together, then matched up for points of common ground and disagreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 5, 1951 | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...nation a week later by Du Mont from New York), they have already shown, in response to requests: a one-armed paper hanger in action, a man fighting a bear, another wrestling an alligator, a boxer fighting a wrestler, a 600-lb. cowboy mounted on a luckless nag, a close-up of a lady swallowing swords, a swallower of goldfish, a Hopi Indian rain dance complete with rattlesnake, a scientist who showed (with the help of liquid air at 300° F. below zero) what the world might be like if the sun went out. For last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Secret Longings | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...while I was on the rail, Watching Deitsch (7-2), Tortenson (4-I), and Edge (S-2) working the course, my friend Terror Mike was casing this McKinley nag. Mike says she took the High Jump back in Sheboygan, and that she says she's very limber. But Mike says to me, "Clocker," he says, "Who ever saw a doll who could race...

Author: By Clocker Spanielle, | Title: Clocker, Friend Work on Hoop Race | 5/1/1951 | See Source »

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