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While the rally and flares were pre-arranged, the team showed an encouraging spontaneous spark in its last appearance on home grounds. Grim determination seemed to characterize both the squad and the coach as they went through their rugged, routine Thursday drills in near-freezing weather.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Finishes Practices | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

And Life had the great good fortune to be publishing, that very week, their huge, astoundingly vulgar "Entertainment Issue;" it sang of "verse that is both savagely rugged and soaringly lyrical," and used the occasion to add several hundred decibels more to Henry Luce's loud, everlasting orgy of American...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: MacLeish's 'J. B.': A Review of Reviews | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

¶Northwestern, which had been moving in on the Big Ten championship, the Rose Bowl, and its first undefeated season ever, ran into rugged Wisconsin and lost 24-19. Like L.S.U., Northwestern looked better than its foe in statistics (which win no games) but hurt itself with fumbles. And Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Most people think of the man with two jobs as a relatively underpaid worker who is forced to moonlight to pay the household bills. The cop and the fireman, who get as little as $2,400 annually, wash windows and work as handymen for a few extra dollars a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Long Green Yonder | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Leger's early work has a rugged texture, and gruff and brusque approach to subject matter that his smooth-surfaced later pictures lack. TheSmokers of 1911 and Variations of Form of 1913 show this style at its most robust and most assertive. Their power is unparalleled in the rest of...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Salute to the Guggenheim | 11/5/1959 | See Source »

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