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Corning had 28 saves in all, while his teammates took 26 unsuccessful shots. The slender Crimson goalie was, however, the victim of several defensive lapses...

Author: By James M. Storey, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Brown Defeats Sextet, 7-2, But Yardlings Rip Cubs, 6-2 | 2/8/1952 | See Source »

...color of ability, the color of experience, the color of courage . . . Hero worship is no substitute for faith based on known performance. Neither is glamour or sex appeal. If we as a party, at this late date, propose to risk our political future on such slender attributes, then I say the party is dead and we are met here today merely to select a good-looking mortician to preside over the final rites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Jolt for a Bandwagon | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

Guatemalan doctors liked Salvatore Lanza at first. A slender, high-strung Italian in his middle 30s, he was loaded with Old World charm. From his voluble talk, it appeared that he was a devoted scientist and surgeon, educated at European universities. About his specialty, plastic surgery, he seemed to know all there was to know. Since plastic surgery is a virgin field in Guatemala, several doctors gratefully accepted his services as a consultant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Graft Expert | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...about reviving operas that have good roles for her." And Europe still presents a challenge. Four years ago she went on a concert tour of Scandinavia, but she has yet to sing opera abroad. Europe will not think her a beauty. One European musician describes her thus: "Fairly tall, slender, and has a pleasant horse face, like a clean-cut American college girl." And Europe has heard better voices. But everyone likes life-and Patrice Munsel has a lot of that. Among other things, she would like to try her Fledermaus Adele-in German-on the Viennese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soprano from Spokane | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

Vicious Pattern. Slender, studious Judge Streit was never much of an athlete himself, but as a five-term assemblyman and a judge for 14 of his 54 years, he knew just where to dig around in the shabby woodwork. Block by block he built up a ringing, 41-page indictment of big-time intercollegiate athletics. Said he: "The exposure before me is only the lifting of the curtain for a small glimpse of intercollegiate football and basketball, fired by commercialism and determination to win at all costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lifting the Curtain | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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