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...teams in Southern lacrosse. Last year's Crimson team matched Maryland in everything but passing around the goal mouth, and the Terrapins walked off with a 15-2 decision. The squad's experience at College Point merely pointed up the fact that Maryland has the slickest stick-handlers in college lacrosse...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

Gentleman's Agreement (American). Hollywood proficiency at its slickest, put at the service of the year's most searching discussion of anti-Semitism (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Choice for 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...Finn, who passes and calls plays for the Bruins, is probably the slickest T-quarter to grace Soldiers Field since Ed Clasby of the Boston College Eagles tested the Crimson in an early September scrimmage. Finn threw the winning pass against Yale last weekend...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Brown Stomps in Today as 13-Point Favorite | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

...Motion. But Jackie could take care of himself. At U.C.L.A. he was one of the slickest halfbacks who ever put on cleats. His ball-carrying average: a remarkable twelve yards a try. Jackie was used mostly as the man-in-motion on offense, because of his skill at faking and feinting. He won All-America honorable mention. U.C.L.A.'s heavy-duty ballcarrier was another Negro, talented Kenny Washington, who made the All-America first team. He and Jackie had no particular love for each other, but both deny persistent campus rumors that they once had a knockdown, drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie of the Year | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...market. Contributors ranged from Jack London, Rex Beach, Irvin Cobb and Ring Lardner to such post-World War I stars as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clarence Budington Kelland, Katharine Brush and J. P. Marquand. What they gave the Post was not always their best, but it was their slickest, and it was good enough to push circulation beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shiny New Post | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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