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With a possible three events in which to start none of this year's varsity swordsmen could boast Coach Perey's endorsement as best in his field. "They're all pretty well matched," said Perey, "but so far the saber seems to be the best event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/6/1948 | See Source »

...were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a handbarrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail jailing over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the saber cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up in the Green Dome | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...revolutionary activities, was once exiled to Miami. In October 1945, Grau made him Prime Minister, a post which he held until last April, when the cabinet, faced with a no-confidence vote in Congress, resigned. Grau promptly made Prio the new Labor Minister. In July he fought a saber duel with Senator Eduardo Chibás, opposition leader. He nicked Chibás a bit, came through himself with only bruises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Prio's Progress | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...only thing that can save us is ideas." At his first performance (Tosca), the guns of the firing squad failed to fire in the last act, and the hero had to drop dead without a bang. In Carmen, the audience was convulsed by a soldier trying to put his saber into its scabbard the wrong way. But by the time the curtain had gone down on Martha, critics cheered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Without Opulence | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Mother Wore Tights (20th Century-Fox) is a nice little movie starring Betty Grable. In most musicals, Boy & Girl break up over a trivial misunderstanding and treat each other, for the next several reels, like a couple of saber-toothed tigers. In this one, a song-&-dance team of the '90s meet, like each other, get married, have a couple of daughters, and live for years without ever regretting a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 8, 1947 | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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