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...Turners' chunky, bespectacled Pearl Nightingale flew off with the women's all-round championship. Only on the balance beam, where contestants go through nerve-racking slow-motion acrobatics, was Champion Nightingale bested by any rival. The men's all-round title went to stocky little Arthur Pitt of the Swiss Gymnastic Society of Union City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Turners & Twisters | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...Last week Tory Oliver Lyttelton, onetime metals magnate and now Minister of Production, told the Aldershot Conservative Assn.: "The great periods of our history were nearly always associated with an outstanding individual and not with a political system. We think of Queen Elizabeth, and Sir Francis Drake, or Marlborough, Pitt and Nelson and of the Duke of Wellington; and it is on the ability to keep alive the spirit of adventure and to inject into public opinion new, fanciful and unorthodox ideas that the vigor of national life depends. Nothing could be more ghastly than a uniform cowlike public opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pasture Politics | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...cause of his white skin. Though he learned eagerly the lore of the Shawnees, Salathiel felt himself a square peg in a round hole. Fortunately Big Turtle, tiring of incessant bickering with white enemies, decided to turn over his white captives to the commander of the British stockade, Fort Pitt. With the captives went Salathiel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mighty Installment | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...route to Fort Pitt, Salathiel met a white girl and, after passing the day alone with her in the forest, was hastily mar ried to her by a friendly preacher. Almost immediately they were separated, for en try into bristling Fort Pitt was not for everyone. Inside the fort, Salathiel met the commandant Captain Ecuyer, became his valet and bodyguard. From the Cap tain he learned discipline, borrowed such books as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richard son's Clarissa Harlowe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mighty Installment | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...undergraduate squad will boast of Varsity stars, Dean Hennessey and George Dillon, as well as Jayvee members, Bob Bunten, Don Gesson, and Henry Moulton. The idea of NROTC basketball squads was conceived by Chief Technician Frank Patrick, former All American football player at Pitt and head of Navy Sci athletics, and heartily approved by Captain G. W. Barker, head of both the ROTC...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NTS HOOPSTERS TO FACE HARVARD NAVAL ROTC | 3/12/1943 | See Source »

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