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But Dr. Crankley was unhappy even as a father. Of his seven children, one was born dead, four others died before him. When Marx's daughter Franziska died of bronchitis, there was no money to buy a coffin. "Her little lifeless body rested in the small back room," related...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Dr. Crankley's Children | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

One night, while the party rested in the walled town of Chioshan, Communists attacked it. Nationalist defenders placed their ammunition dump next to the missionaries' quarters. When shells began to fall, the missionaries took cover in the basement, and prayed again. Nationalist reinforcements arrived, and the Communists withdrew.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: MISSIONARY REPORT | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Southern Cal's beefy bruisers, the West Coast champs, were not clubbed to death. They were just hoodwinked and whipsawed by Michigan's slickers. Jack Weisenburger, Crisler's sturdy spinning fullback, started most of Michigan's backfield ballet and ball-handling hocuspocus, and chewed through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Case for Michigan | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Most of the guests left early. Churchill, who had worked as usual the night before, rested in the afternoon. At dinner Churchill was grim and silent. At 9 p.m. he asked Sawyers, the butler, to bring the radio to the table. It was a $15 portable that Harry Hopkins had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambassador's Report | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

After three failures, Tisdale carried the mail over from the ten. Now on the shoulders of the Blue's John Eden rested the best possibility of a tie. He made the first two, but Lamar's Jim Lowell did him one better and made three and that was just enough...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: '51 Checks Eli Surge for 27-26 Win | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

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