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Now, in blood-chilling tones, he was telling his rapt listeners what will happen to them after a Communist takeover: "They'll take a wide-bore revolver with a soft-nosed bullet and place it at the nape of your neck to blow your brain and your face into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: Crusader Schwarz | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

The next major figure in Notre Dame's history was a smash-nosed kid from Chicago, a Norwegian-American Protestant named Knute Rockne. In 1913 obscure little Notre Dame played Army in Yankee Stadium as a filler on West Point's football schedule. Captain Rockne, at left end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: God & Man at Notre Dame | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

Where did these Cretans come from? Perhaps from Asia. What wiped them out? Perhaps a civil war. And what became of the refugees? Perhaps some of them were the Philistines-those enemies of the Jews whom Christianity condemned as the exponents of hard-nosed materialism.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Swarmings of Peoples | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

Talent Hunt. As the Aussie players come and go, their team's most valuable man remains its laconic captain, Harry Hopman. A hard-nosed disciplinarian who demands monastic devotion and impeccable manners from his players. Hopman. 55, bosses an uncompromising talent-hunting organization that spots promising youngsters, grooms them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best in the World | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

COLLECTED POEMS, by Robert Graves. The songs of this bent-nosed Jove are clear, precise and passionate, and owe little to the century in which they were written. The author, who has filled some 70 books with several sorts of excellent prose, justifiably considers the poems his life work.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE YEAR'S BEST | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

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