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With this flamboyant formula, plus a dash of socialism, roly-poly little Editor Harry Guy ("Mister Bart") Bartholomew of the Mirror had outdistanced the equally flamboyant Express. For years the world's biggest daily, the Express had added Dick Tracy and a letters column. But it had picked up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: War in Fleet Street | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Many Switches. At New Haven, where his Yale team bowed to Princeton last week, roly-poly Coach Herman Hickman complained: "The way the boys switch in & out, I spend half my time seeing if there are nine, twelve or 14 men in the game ... I need an assistant."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Production-Line Football | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

After a scoreless first half, Jay Gintel, a former Poly Prep booter captain, put in the first Dartmouth goal at 2:55 of the third quarter. One period later, center-forward Judson got the second score against the Yardlings, who were never able to acclimate themselves to the bruising Indian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Win Today Vital to Both Teams; Soccer Squad Blanks Dartmouth | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

The leading character is Robert Grant, who is fiftyish, roly-poly, and "a moral leper." Grant spends his life chasing women and dollars with obsessive passion; he is not a hypocrite, since he lacks the degree of self-awareness necessary for hypocrisy; he is simply an ugly tub of flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moral Leper | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Harvard's Paul Joseph Sachs, 69, harddriving, roly-poly art historian, collector of prints and drawings, and longtime associate director of Harvard's famed Fogg Museum of Art. A onetime partner in the banking firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co., well-to-do Professor Sachs made Fogg the No...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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