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...Crouch & Slouch. Hunt moved rapidly into the finals, fighting his way past unassuming, even-paced 4-F Bill Talbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tars Take Over | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Washington last week Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, pulled his black slouch hat down over his gimlet eyes, picked up his grips in his ham-sized hands, and took train for his North Carolina tobacco-farming district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dead Center | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

Montgomery had been incessantly touring his positions, forever popping up in a slouch hat which he had grabbed from the head of a startled Australian infantryman. He had demanded stiff training and stiff discipline from the troops just behind the lines, and he had personally directed every type of night attack, marched with new troops, fired every new gun and tried out every new tank as they arrived. His angular, inquisitive figure was by now familiar to all the units about to attack: the sist Highlanders, veterans of France, now about to get their first action against the Germans since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AFRICA: The Prelude | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...handed freak. By mid-1942 he looked more like a two-handed champion. Every tennis player in the country whistled last July when Segura batted his way through the strong Czecho-Slovakian, Ladislav Hecht. 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. An urchin-like figure with a pigeon-toed slouch and a dark Indian face, Segura addresses a forehand shot as if he were about to kill it with an ax, often whirls so far off the ground that he seems to be swung by his racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Golden Age | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...England A. A. U. Champion, is a junior, who has a lot of boxing experience behind him. He is hoping to get a job teaching English, or one in the field of Social Service. Brody, former Annapolis athlete, is no slouch with the gloves either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bullitt Will Fight Mike Brody in "Heavyweight" Class as 40 Enter University Championships | 3/11/1942 | See Source »

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