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...Prettiest football coach in the U.S. is 22-year-old Pauline Rugh. When Bell Township High School, in the soft-coal mining community of Salina (20 miles east of Pittsburgh), lost its football coach, the school's comely physical-education teacher persuaded officials to let her take the job. Then she nearly lost it before she started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: $800,000,000 Show | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Lido Gardens, where dinner is $5 and watery highballs are 75? apiece. But the steak is the best that side of Chicago, the vegetables are quick-frozen and the chef gets $800 a month. The place has no orchestra (manpower shortage) but displays an elegant juke box-and the prettiest Civil Service employes in Anchorage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Northland Boom | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...prettiest plays in sport is soccer's "corner kick"-a free kick booted from the corner of the field toward the players of both teams, who try to kick or butt the ball into the net or down the field. In The Bronx's Starlight Park this week, corner kicks and other fancy head-and-footwork were executed with rare artistry. The performers were the two foremost big-league outfits in the U.S.: the Brooklyn Hispanos and Pittsburgh's Morgan Strassers, facing each other in soccer's equivalent of the baseball World's Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Booters' Trophy | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...five years ago, I could have saved you it all by sending you off on a bout of dissipation-all the great creators of the past were devils. Drink and women have saved many a man from death and madness." (Hone adds, in the book's prettiest footnote: "An Irish doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 1865-1939 | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

Like its combat equivalent, the Purple Heart, prettiest of all U.S. medals, which was re-created in 1932 chiefly for men wounded in action, the Legion of Merit's ancestry is traced to the oldest of U.S. decorations, George Washington's Badge for Military Merit (1782). Washington awarded his medal for "not only instances of unusual gallantry, but also of extraordinary fidelity, and essential service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MEDALS: Not Only Gallantry | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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