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...freshman game, Brown netted four more field goals than the Yardlings final score. Forward Paul Shaw and guard Rollin Perry were high scorers for the Crimson, as they had been against M.I.T. last week. This time they shared top honors with 14 points apiece, with identical six field goal and two foul totals...

Author: By Jere Broh-kahn, | Title: Crimson Basketball Teams Split At Brown; Varsity Wins, 57 to 47 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...Morison just keeps rollin' along, writing the most fascinating serial about World War II that anybody has yet, with the single exception of Winston Churchill. Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls is Volume VII in Morison's history of U.S. naval operations in World War II, and marks the halfway mark in the Harvard professor's long literary voyage. "Now that the outward passage is ended," he says comfortably, "we shall be homeward bound shortly." After Volume XIV, tentatively titled The Liquidation of the Japanese Empire, Morison expects to put into port at 71, a reasonable retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Central Pacific Spectacle | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

What his audiences got was a Mississippi Legend that mostly just kept rollin' along, smoothly and inevitably, but with few flash floods of emotion. Well sung by a Village Opera Company cast and chorus (no orchestra), Legend had its chief charm in its authentic blues. It was in the American idiom all right, but the score was all warp and no woof. Wolfe strung his ballads along one after the other, unadorned and undeveloped, with few bars to bind them together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in the Idiom | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...ROLLIN D. HEMENS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 23, 1951 | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...posse was organized to track them down-and the peerless Hogjaw and his hounds were requisitioned from the prison farm. Hogjaw turned up, burly and cocky, in a bright red shirt and striped pants. He belted on a pistol and holster, and at rainy daybreak put three dogs, High Rollin' Red, Nigger and Alabama, on the trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Shooter's Chance | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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