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Sadanoyama lunged forward-and the great, grunting men locked in a spine-wrenching embrace. Faces scarlet from exertion, they stumbled toward the edge of the ring. Sadanoyama relentlessly bent Taiho backward. Just when he seemed beaten. Taiho twisted free, heaved Sada noyama bodily out of the ring, and collapsed, exhausted, on top of his conquered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Giant Bird | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

However, coach Bob Pickett has called the Scarlet Knights one of the East's two toughest teams, so the defeat has not dimmed Crimson hopes for their most successful season in many years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen to Battle Quakers | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...Bible story, as Producer Lombardo tells it, has plenty of gee whiz but very little Genesis. Lot (Stewart Granger) is shown as an athletic saint who spends most of his time improbably clobbering swordsmen with a shepherd's crook. His wife (Pier Angeli) is shown as a scarlet woman of Sodom who looks back at the destruction of her home town and is turned to-now if that's a pillar of salt the Venus de Milo is Mother Machree. And the big blast in the last reel is a low-cost holocaust, obviously done in miniature, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee Whiz & Genesis | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

Columbia ends the season, with a non-Ivy opponent, Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights have spent some gloomy afternoons this year, but their victory over Penn and near upset of Princeton indicates that they have some football talent...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Indians Should Subdue Tigers | 11/24/1962 | See Source »

...opera house, built inside the gutted frame of Seattle's drafty and flat-floored Civic Auditorium, boasts a rich interior of cherry wood, scarlet plush and gold; it is linked to the theater and exhibition hall by covered promenades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: The Do-It-Yourself Acropolis | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

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