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Meanwhile, Dean Acheson had his message, too, and it also sprayed balm in the general direction of the Communist scalp. The Government is trying in all its words & deeds to make its peaceful intentions toward China clear to the Communist leaders, he told reporters. President Truman has said so, declared Acheson, and we are making it clear through the Voice of America and otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Wooing of Mao | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...Scalp the Savages. Historian (California's Huntington Library) Cleland's story of the hundreds of other daredevil trappers who opened up the Southwest for U.S. expansion is a tribute to some of history's forgotten men. Equipped with half a dozen five-pound beaver traps, a rifle and a tomahawk, such buckskin-clothed trappers as Antoine Robidoux (who built the first trading post west of the Rockies' main range), Joseph Reddeford Walker (discoverer of Yosemite Valley) and Old Bill Williams stared down danger and brought a fortune in furs out of virgin streams. For most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beaver Era | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...honors go-his imperturbable jauntiness and brashness have a decidedly infections quality. He is a past master of the "slow burn"-the process of catching on to a situation slowly and reflecting this in a radical change of facial expression. Here is where Chevalier's twitching eyebrows and sliding scalp work an hard that they aboost earn feature billing...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/11/1950 | See Source »

June. In Miami, Fred H. Kautzmann charged that the James Drug Shop had mixed two prescription labels, causing him for the past year to rub stomach medicine on his scalp and drink his hair tonic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

This article has not been written because of outside pressure; it has been written because of the authors' conviction that the current complaints over Harvard football can hurt the wrong people. We are not after anybody's scalp. We intend no slur on the current Harvard team, which played through a gruelling schedule to the top of its abilities, but which was outmatched almost every week. We have no reservations about Arthur Valpey, who probably is not perfect but who is certainly a very fine coach. We advocate neither installing athletic scholarships nor giving up football...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

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