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...does not smoke, prefers milk to whiskey, tries to be in bed by 8 p.m., cannot understand why there is no horse-steak oh U.S. menus. On his one nightclub excursion, he got a satisfying eyeful of American girls, cautiously explained: "It does not harm to look, no?" A rabid jazz fan, he keeps his hotel-room radio going steadily for entertainment, sings above it his current favorite-"The Hatchayson, Topeka and the Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Feather-Footed Frenchman | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Responding to the exhortations of some 1600 rabid rooters who overflowed Cousens Gymnasium, the Tufts basketball team came perilously close to defeating the Crimson Saturday night, as they held the once-defeated Stahlmen to a hard-earned 67 to 65 victory...

Author: By Monroe S. Singer, | Title: Gray's Last-Minute Score Stops Jumbo Threat, 67-65 | 2/5/1946 | See Source »

Paradoxically, the only teams up to full strength were the Rangers and the Maple Leafs, both hopelessly bogged in the league cellar. But they could offer home-town fans plenty of real blood & thunder on the artificial ice-and the rabid fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rough Stuff | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...Sundown (pop. 1,500) rabid football citizens dug deep for $3,000 to pay a good coach; Brownsville anted a fat $5,000 for its coach. By adding a bumper-to-bumper motorcade to the first (so they claimed) postwar-special football train, practically all of Odessa's inhabitants trekked 170 miles to see their team play Abilene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pigskin Pyrotechnics | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Your report of Lieut. Colonel Samuel A. Sandler's study of Army somnambulists [TIME June 18] is unfair to happy, gentle sleepwalkers who are very much interested in women, who never dream of snakes or rabid dogs, or of screaming for Father to come to the rescue. As one of the latter, might I suggest the Colonel withhold further reports until he has studied more than a mere 22 Army men (who probably did not want to join the Army anyway) and try next to include some Navy men, and certainly a Marine or two, whom no one afoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1945 | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

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