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...Keep This Up." Loud-mouthed Communist-line Congressman Vito Marcantonio took the witness stand. He was offered by the defense as an "expert," but he did none of his usual screaming; he was bothered by a cold. No such ailment handicapped pint-sized Lawyer Harry Sacher, who looks like a Dead End Kid. In a bullfrog's voice he insinuated at one point that Judge Medina was prejudicing the trial. Medina said icily: "You and your colleagues have obviously adopted new techniques by which, instead of the defendants being tried, the court and all its members are the ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: I Tell You ... Stop It! | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...brain has about 10 billion neurons), it would take the power of Niagara Falls to operate it and the Niagara River to keep it from overheating. The brain is cooled by a comparatively small river of blood. When awake and in full operation, it raises the temperature of a pint of circulating blood one-half degree a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ten Billion Relays | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...last week tall, skinny Isachar Combs and Patrolman Lewis Deaton locked up three men. One of them had a pint of moonshine which he said he had got from Bryan Middleton, 48, who ran a restaurant in Evarts. Combs and Deaton got a search warrant and walked over to Middleton's restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: The Fifth Chief | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Died. Davis ("Dave") Tough, 41, famed, pint-sized (5 ft.) jazz drummer (a "Chicago style" pioneer, he had played with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Artie Shaw); of a fractured skull, suffered when he fell on the street; in Newark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 20, 1948 | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...almost sure starter is Dave Smith, a freshman star last year and, according to Jordan, an "outstanding sophomore" this year. Alfred Abboud is currently in the same division, although he may check in at 135 later on. In this class Jordan has pint-sized Roger Wach and Harry King, one of the five returning lettermen. King, on the other hand, is likely to compete in the 145-pound group, where he would be joined by Ray, unless Ray wrestles...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Wrestlers Shaping Up Under Jordan's Hand | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

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