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...glad to be back in the thick of it again? The answer was an epic shrug and a Slavic expostulation as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big Cello | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...year-old Jockey Culmone had one factor in his favor: at Hollywood Park, where most of the top stables and jockeys are now located, Willie has a lot tougher competition to beat than Joe. Nothing seems to worry 19-year-old Willie Shoemaker less. Says he with a shrug: "If I win at the end of the year, swell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Be Kind to Horses | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

Pollock followed his canvases to Italy, exhibited them in private galleries in Venice and Milan. Italian critics tended to shrug off his shows. Only one, brash young (23) Critic Bruno Alfieri of Venice, took the bull by the horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Chaos, Damn It! | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...didn't want a lot of birds around my house. Your honor, what would you, as a judge, do with a bunch of sparrows?" Judge Albert Boone solemnly turned to his two colleagues on the bench and put the question to them, but they could only shrug their shoulders in answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Not for Burning | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...advanced tennis age of 26, Patty suddenly seemed to have turned serious about the game. Seven weeks ago, chain-smoking Patty gave up cigarettes, began to shrug off invitations to Paris nightclubs. Last month he won the French singles championship, defeating the No. 2 U.S. player, Billy Talbert, and the self-exiled Czech, Jaroslav Drobny, in five-set grinds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another Budge | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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