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One night last week German Austrian storm troopers loaded 51 Jews, including an 82-year-old rabbi, into a Danube river launch, took them downstream to the point where Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary meet. There they dumped them on a stone breakwater in the middle of the swollen stream. All...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wandering Jews | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Last week, in Chicago's vast Coliseum, the American Bowling Congress was rolling into the sixth week of its 1938 session -to determine five-man, two-man and individual U. S. bowling champions. The local "booster" teams had already accomplished their chore of breaking in the brand-new, slippery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beer Keglers | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Since the Crimson attack was principally based on a running offensive, while the English ruggers were more dependent on kicking, the rain and slippery field were serious handicaps to the Varsity.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Team Submerges Crimson Ruggers 50-0 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

In the first game of the playoff, staged in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, a slippery floor confused both teams. With Luisetti as high man scoring 20 points, Stanford won, 52-to-39. In the second game, played in Stanford's small Pavilion ("Cracker Box"), Luisetti's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Last Basket | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Hardheaded, slippery Hero Ulysses left home with his mother's blessing when he was six. At 18 he had been a bootblack, a harbor scavenger, a hashish peddler in the brothels of Alexandria. His next move was to embark for Africa with a stock of liquor for the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Super Greek | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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