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...anybody wants to find Art Valpey, Davey Nelson, Butch Jordan or thirty-six stalwart young men today, he'll have to put in a call to Watkins Glen, N.Y. This quaint little hamlet is where the Dunean Hines, of the H.A.A. has ledged the varsity football team for the Cornell weekend...

Author: By Don Carswell, | Title: Football Squad Arrives at Cornell | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

...Into the quaint geometry of love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: O God! O Kinsey! | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Angelola in the big race, but Queen Elizabeth didn't give the royal entry a prayer. Said she: "I think I should back My Love." So did most of the 400,000 fans lining the track at Doncaster, England, for last week's St. Leger (rhymes with quaint ledger). My Love was the 7-to-4 favorite; the Aga Khan's mahogany three-year-old had already won the Epsom Derby and the French Grand Prix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 1776 & All That | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...this is told in a graceful, leisurely prose which gives Bridie Steen an oldfashioned, 19th Century quality found in few recent novels. But even on so quaint a dish, novelists today would not dare to serve up so cloying a mixture of Irish whimsy, gooey romance and tear-jerking melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Bit of Blarney | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Boston was shaken by some old phrases from Playwright Noel Coward. The censor banned two quaint lines from his 15-year-old Design For Living (which played Boston uncensored in the early '305). One referred to a "wanton abode," the other to an "unpremeditated roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Ruffles & Flourishes | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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