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Gargoyle captain Jim Parry described the match as a pushover, and lauded the skillful efforts of shooter John Kernochan and squopper Tom Houston, Saturday's high scorers.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Winks Squad Downs Two Opponents | 11/6/1962 | See Source »

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, a piece of skillful but specious pleading for the British proletariat, ominously suggests that the battles of World War III may be lost on the playing fields of her Majesty's reform schools.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Borstal Boycott | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

The Crimson played skillful ball--accurate passing, nimble dribbling, well-placed feeding--but it lacked the tenacity and drive of the Amherst offense.

Author: By Jonathan D. Trobe, | Title: Amherst Triumphs 3-0 Over Varsity Booters | 10/15/1962 | See Source »

Another good comedy is Our Man Higgins (ABC), largely because its producers have persuaded Stanley Holloway, the original Doolittle of My Fair Lady, to play an English butler in an American home. Holloway is such a skillful actor that he can engage a line like this one and win: "Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

Democrat Barnett is fond of pointing to his childhood poverty. "We were poor, poor," he says. "I wasn't raised in a hothouse." The youngest of ten children, he paid his way through Mississippi College and the University of Mississippi law school by working as a barber and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MISSISSIPPI'S BARNETT: Now He's a Hero | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

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