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...stable of 17 fighters, couldn't understand everybody's worries. Said he: "I've never been beaten so that I felt it more than a day or two. . . . My head has never hurt . . . I'm still all there." His dress was sharp, his nose potato-shaped, his ears cauliflowered. And he still intended to quit. Said he: "Maybe one more fight in Mexico City next month, then I'm gonna check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Had Enough? | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...National Potato Contest (Tues. 12:30 p.m., Mutual). Three governors compete in a potato peeling and baking contest. Judges: Mrs. Harry S. Truman, General George C. Marshall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jan. 20, 1947 | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...hundreds of years, Paris' chiffoniers (rag pickers) had shuffled about quietly in the half-light before dawn, pawing through potato peels and rotten meat in their quest for a handful of old rags or an empty tin can. (Their .reward: for a kilo of rags, 4 francs; for a kilo of iron, half a franc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Chiffoniers | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...unpolitical artist. This I did. . . . I've never conducted in a conquered country. I didn't want to follow tanks into other people's countries. . . . Where was the music of Beethoven more needed than in Himmler's Germany? . . . I am no more guilty than a potato dealer who continued to sell potatoes in the Third Reich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Acquittal | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...econimies on polities. Here, the department has shown a lag that can the traced to the overall interest of the faculty in other phases of the work plus the disinclination of any University to apoint left-wingers. At a time when control of the economy is the hottest potato around, it is unfortunate that only one course deals with the political approach to the issue, and then only partially. A part of the answer may lie in the left-wing leanings that seem to pervade the thinking of many political economists. The fact remains that there are no thoroughly left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State of the College | 12/5/1946 | See Source »

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