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With some of its injured topflighters coming back to practice this week and only one injured player from Saturday's clash with Western Reserve, Brown will be in good physical shape for its game with Harvard this Saturday at Cambridge, Coach Rip Engle expects...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Battered Team Gropes For Tackle, Wingback | 11/9/1948 | See Source »

...Minn, farmer named Walter Morgan got a pilot to take him aloft for a parachute jump. He leaped out of the plane at 1,800 feet, gave 2,000 spectators near heart failure by letting himself fall free until he was halfway to the ground. Then he yanked his rip cord, landed calmly in a field, said: "That's what an old man can do when he lets liquor alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Rudy Cosentino has filled the gap left by fullback "Rip" Rowan's graduation. He works well on the quick openers that spearhead the Army...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barclay Says Army's Pass Offense Good | 10/14/1948 | See Source »

Outside the little (pop. 5,230) town of Jacarezinho, 335 miles upcountry from São Paulo, several hundred farmers watched a big tractor rip a stump out of the rich red earth. Said one grizzled farmer to Nelson Rockefeller, who had come all the way from New York for the occasion: "I've seen you do in five minutes what it would take me five weeks to do with my horse." Already Rockefeller's Empresa de Mecanizaçāo Agricola, S.A., (Agricultural Mechanization Co.) had enough orders for pulling stumps and clearing land to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Good Works at a Profit | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...workers, shoeshine boys, campesinos, Indians from the high sierra. Behind the man with the eggs, Santiago Sánchez walked with arms outstretched, like Christ's on the cross. Indalecio Gómez Romero carried his shoes in one hand, his hat in the other, that stones might rip his feet and the sun strike his head and his penance be more severe. Onesimo Cadena, from the sierra, walked with head bowed. He intended to ask forgiveness for being drunk in a cantina when his wife died unattended at home. Alfonso Noriega joked, laughed and wove a crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pilgrimage | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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