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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jittery moments. A coach's most difficult task under the new style, says Boucher, is getting his men to switch quickly from five-man offense to five-man defense the split second that a scoring drive begins to peter out. He is frank to admit: "I'd prefer playing the old game, but I like watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey's New Look | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

There was one bright spot for men of good will-including the scientists, who prefer to work on something less disastrous to mankind: much of what was learned at Camp Detrick about spreading airborne infections can be applied to curing peacetime ills. Their equipment is now being adapted for research on the common cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Germs for World War III? | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and the western section of Yellowstone National Park are made to order for those who prefer powder snow and tree-lined trails, while Colorado's Berthoud Pass and Winter Park offer open slopes varying from 40 degrees to five degrees and skiing late into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bored? 'To West, Young Man' Is Advice to Embryonic Pro | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

...gets a hand-made pine rack lined with small jars of herbs would probably prefer aspirin. A camel's hair bathrobe at upwards of $100.00 not only would represent its North African parents after falling to the floor a couple of times, but would also be no more happily received than half its weight in Camel's. As a book, "Sporting Architecture" is, to Harvard men, worth only the number of Hymarxes if can be traded...

Author: By Joan Mopartlin, | Title: Importance of Other Sex Clouds Yuletide Spirit | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

...King Ranch. His house is no palace. Compared to the luxury of the swimming pool, the ten-car garage and the $350,000 towered and turreted main house of the Santa Gertrudis hacienda, the Kleberg's home is tiny (seven rooms). For privacy's sake they prefer it to the enormous main house, which they use as a guest house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Big as All Outdoors | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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