Word: sam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plum blossoms and toads are out a month early in the warmest Japanese winter for years. Nevertheless, Japan's farmers, like farmers anywhere, worry about the weather-and everything else. Last week TIME Correspondent Sam Welles listened to their troubles in backroad villages less than 100 miles from Tokyo where no American had been seen since V-J day. He cabled...
Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn welcomed television with some rolling prose for the New York Times Magazine: "The future of motion pictures, conditioned as it will be by the competition of television, is going to have no room for the deadwood of the present or the faded glories of the past." And a good thing, too, thought Goldwyn: "It will take brains instead of just money to make pictures...
Coached by Harry Dallmar, a former All-American who now plays with the Philadelphia Warriors, Penn is big and fast. The Quakers are led by Sam Lyon, a six-foot four-inch center and perhaps the best in the League. His left-hand hook shot has averaged 16 points a game. Besides height, the team has an excellent set shot artist in Phil Harman...
...Sam Felton didn't break any window at Briggs Cago yesterday afternoon but his toss of 56 feet, 3 3/8 inches in special AAU open 35-pound weight throw was the goe-whiz performance of the four-event AAU track meet...
Felton, a member of the New York Athletic Association, was ineligible for the New England weight throw. Now a student at the Business School, Sam tried in the special weight event to break Niles Perkins' world record of 58 feet, 7 1/2 inches...