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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Golf's big names were there, straining to put a final touch of polish on their games. Ed Furgol, who manages to break par despite a withered left arm, had been drilling over the course for a month. Jimmy ("Smiles") Demaret, the best wind-shot in the business, and slim Lloyd ("Mustache") Mangrum haunted the practice rounds along with some 120 others. Besides high-compression temperament and a steely command of the emotions, it had taken hard work to get to the top of the tournament business and it was taking hard work to keep them there. With most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Ice Water | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Married. Harry Amos Bullis, 58, chairman of the board of General Mills, Inc.; and Polish Countess Maria Smorczewska, 54, who was put into a Nazi concentration camp during the war for underground activities; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1947), she for the third; in Minneapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 10, 1949 | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...still a burden borne on the patient backs of the overworked and undernourished Russian people. In I Saw Poland Betrayed, onetime U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane wrote a blunt, forceful account of the means by which the Kremlin (with little resistance from the U.S. Government) took over the Polish state. Political pundits had a sure-fire topic in Russia v. the Western democracies. Most crisp and provocative of a spate of books on the subject was bright, British Barbara Ward's The West at Bay, in which she argued that Western Europe must have Western Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 20, 1948 | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Radcliffe records will be smashed this Christmas when more girls than over before stay in Cambridge over the holidays to polish theses and study for finals, college authorities said today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holiday Stay - Overs Break All Records | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...pinch, there are always lipsticks, compacts, or combinations of both, nail polish and all the tools that go with it, wallets, pocketbooks, and endless types of jewelry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Offers Tips to Shoppers Puzzled What To Give (Him, Her) | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

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