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She never found out, though they at once bought 40 acres and a log house high up near the cold shoulders of the Olympic Mountains in the "most rugged, most westerly, greatest, deepest, largest, wildest, gamiest, richest, most fertile, loneliest, most desolate" countryside she had ever seen. The house had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scrawk! | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Enthusiastic patients, packing the small Chelsea gymnasium to the court's edge, saw baskets tallied by every known method as rapidly as the contestants could toss the ball. The sailors, who relied for their points mainly on accurate shooting from a distance, were led by rugged Dan Bricker, who was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Tops Chelsea Five As Skaters Tie B.U., 4 to 4 | 3/1/1946 | See Source »

In a rousing scorefest that ran just about true to form, a powerful Dartmouth hockey team took the Crimson skaters into camp by a score of 14 to 5 at the Boston Arena Friday night. It was the old, old story of an experienced, rugged outfit pitted against an undeveloped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unsteady Crimson Bows to Favored Dartmouth Skaters | 2/19/1946 | See Source »

Last November pretty, blonde Guri Lie showed her father a report in a Norwegian newspaper that he might become secretary of UNO. Big, bluff Trygve Lie (pronounced TRIG-va Lee) boomed: "What is this? Why do they suggest me?" Trygve Lie knew that they would not pick him for his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: A Man with Guts | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

The railroad involved is the one celebrated in the now-familiar ditty by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren: On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe. Miss Garland rides the railroad and sings the song for all and maybe a little more than it's worth. As one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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