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...high school at 15. Now 21 and taking up his education again after five years spent over the chess boards and bridge tables, he is seeking not only an A. B. in May, eight months after entering the University, but also his Master's degree in August. Super-Scooter MacMurray has already taken seven of nine comprehensive examinations needed for his bachelor's degree. Score: four A's, two B's, one D (in Physical Sciences). His formula: study 14 hours a day (with the aid of chocolate bars and coffee) for several days, then take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chicago Scooters | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...continue to sell oil to Italy as long as any other nation in the world does. Whipping himself up to land a racy and readable Geneva story on U. S. front pages United Pressman Wallace Carroll cabled: "Italy's bombing planes grounded for lack of gasoline, her terrifying scooter tanks stalled in the Ethiopian mountains without fuel, her battleships tied to their docks with cold boilers, her war-industries closed for lack of pig iron and steel to mould into munitions-these are the objectives of League of Nations penalties approved by the economic subcommittee today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: The Lie | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...started in characteristic style with a touchdown in the first period by towheaded Irvine ("Scooter") Warburton, its nimble, 145-lb. quarterback, who wriggled free on Stanford's 43-yd. line. In the next period Stanford's speedy Fullback Bobby Grayson slashed and passed through the Trojan line, punched over a touchdown. Southern California's line stiffened and it looked like a tie game when Bill Corbus went to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 20, 1933 | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...beaten for the second time this year, 13 to 0. In the first quarter occurred a prolonged, painful, unproductive collision between two of the ablest college lines in the U. S., mostly at Notre Dame's end of the field. In the second quarter, small, cotton-topped Irving ("Scooter") Warburton, U. S. C. substitute back, caught a 35-yd. Notre Dame punt and took it back to where it started, at Notre Dame's 44-yd. line. Warburton picked up 14 yd. through the line, then 2 more. Coach Howard Jones sent in one of his ablest passers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: U. S. C. v. Notre Dame | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...called "girl's bicycle," in the illustration of the three small naked boys, is actually a "scooter bike," a small vehicle developed and marketed for children from five to ten years old of either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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