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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curiously Unreal. The $1,500 first prize went to German-born Max Beckmann, 65, whom Hitler denounced and hounded out of Germany as a "degenerate" painter. Beckmann's big Fisherwomen was far from being the jut-jawed old master's best or most ambitious work, but ft did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Made in U. S. A. | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

After ripping off tackle on a 53-yard sprint a fortnight ago, Yale's Levi Jackson modestly confessed he couldn't have done it "if Columbia's right tackle had not been blocked out of the play." Last week, in studying the movies of the game (which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Man Who Wasn't There | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

All season a shadow named Danny Gardella had hung over organized baseball. Danny, a New York Giant outfielder of mediocre talents, who had beetled off to join the ill-fated Mexican League in 1946, was suing baseball for $300,000-and challenging the whole system of "reserve clause" contracts which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I'm So Happy | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Paul Presbrey, a small, hard-eyed police reporter who covers St. Paul for the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star and Tribune, is too nervous to sleep more than four or five hours a night; frequently he climbs out of bed at 3 or 4 a.m. to prowl St. Paul in search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Paul Prowler | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

After ten years of Superman's astounding antics, McClure Newspaper Syndicate and National Comics Publications thought that readers might be getting bored with their comic-strip hero's invulnerability. Last week the syndicators decided to put Superman in a position where he may lose an occasional round. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Most Intimate Problem | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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