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...scarlet robe and black plush cap of an Oxford doctor, he stumped into Dr. McCluer's living room, tired but happy. A photographer's bulb exploded. "There must be a Russian in the house," he grinned. His valet slipped him a slug of brandy to reinforce him. Then Winston Churchill stood in the reception line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shoot If You Must | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

December. In Reno, Bill Crowson asked a policeman how much it cost to slug a wife, was told $50, slugged his, paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1945 | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...longest and noisiest of all U.S. football seasons is the high school football season in Texas. From the Pecos to the Panhandle, 740 Texas Interscholastic League teams slug it out with everything but blackjacks. They usually get more newspaper space than college games, often draw bigger crowds. Fans (who include about everybody in Texas) get in there and cheer as if they were defending the Alamo with Davy Crockett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pigskin Pyrotechnics | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Tried & True. In Reno, Bill Crowson asked a policeman how much it cost to slug a wife, was told $50, slugged his, paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...doubted that pitching would cinch the league championship. How it stacked up in quality against prewar slug ging would get a test in the last two-thirds of the season. The tester: big Hank Greenberg, who led the 1940 hitting pa rade with 41 homers, pocketed his Army discharge last week and planned to give Detroit a hitting as well as a pitching punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pitcher's Heyday | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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