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Much like the unhappy sportswriter who predicted that Bob Pastor would uncrown Joseph Louis '04 of Detroit, I am going to place myself squarely on the end of a limb. In short, your favorite columnist's room-mate is going on record here with respect to the unfortunate controversy which...

Author: By William E.STEDMAN Jr., | Title: Swing | 1/24/1941 | See Source »

In Manhattan last week the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed what many a plain citizen has long suspected: that most popular songs sound pretty much alike. Jack Darrell, author, decade ago, of a not very successful ditty called Does Anybody Want a Kewpie?, had brought suit for plagiarism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Judges on Plagiarism | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Par. Today Wendell Willkie is the biggest political figure in U. S. business. Electric power (he calls it "par") is his business, but power in the general sense is a word that recurs often in his philosophy. Free enterprise, free competition and free trade are his tenets for raising the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Indiana Advocate | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

As for the lineup, injury jinx makes the principal problem. Of three veteran and stellar fullbacks, Coach Carr never knows for certain if any of them will be able to play until about the day of a game. Captain Dick Powell is permanently benched with a trick knee; Joe Bradley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/28/1937 | See Source »

Radio programs faded last week. Long-distance telephone conversations gurgled. Telegrams stuttered along the wires. Ships' compasses jiggled. And the Northern Lights flapped like curtains in a storm. It all reflected, said Dr. A. G. McNish, authority on the earth's magnetism, in Washington last week for a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sun Storm | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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