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...sales manager in 1934, from Gene Johnson who had spent half a dozen years coaching minor college and commercial teams in the Midwest. He guaranteed a winning combination. Last week, Coach Johnson gave his recipe for their success: "We like to turn the game into a wild, helter-skelter, all-over-the-court scuffle . . . because we play bad basketball better than the other fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympic Basketballers | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...museum. Bristling quince-colored hair, streaked with light, is brushed back en brosse into a stippled green background. The face has a yellow tinge, the eyes are disdainful and cold above an astonishing fiery red beard. It is not hard to imagine the possessor of such features racing helter-skelter through life and at last landing in an insane asylum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/3/1936 | See Source »

...auditorium principally because the avid Shaksperians prevented his entrance to the originally scheduled room. When word spread that the locale had been shifted to Professor Merriman's lair, ladies from Radcliffe, boys and girls from Rindge Tech, and just plain Harvardmen threw dignity to the winds and raced helter-skelter for vantage spots from which to hear that "King Claudius, (Hamlet's uncle), of all geat characters in Shakspere, is the one who has suffered most at the hands of actors and stage managers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVID SHAKSPERIANS FORCE KITTREDGE TO LECTURE HALL | 2/13/1936 | See Source »

...hundreds of campuses last week, students opened trunks, tossed their contents helter-skelter into closets. With some colleges already opening and others holding freshman week, enrollments were generally up, might set a new record. Newsworthy openings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Openers | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...having reduced the Universe to a featureless mass, refuses to let it stay in that condition forever. He shows that the Second Law is, after all, only a statistical law, a mountainous piling up of probability. There is no reason why, sometime, a number of air molecules rushing helter-skelter about a room should not -just by accident-rush into a toy balloon and blow it up. It does not happen because it is too improbable. But the infinity of Time gives the most fantastic improbabilities a chance to happen. Thus, in a featureless Universe existing in infinite Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Philosophers in Philadelphia | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

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