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...After a so-so season, the University of Southern California Trojans made everything all right by scoring 21 points in the final quarter to upset favored Notre Dame 42-20. It was the first time U.S.C. had beaten the Irish since 1950, and the largest score they had run up in the 27-game-old rivalry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...distressful ailments known to laymen as colds, grippe, flu and viral pneumonia make up a spectrum of illnesses for which doctors have long had fancier names but no cures and mostly so-so vaccines. Last week the U.S. Public Health Service announced a breakthrough in the campaign against these assorted "upper respiratory infections": a vaccine that appears to be effective against a common one, Type 3, in the grippe family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Grip on Grippe | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...smitten 33-year-old soldier and the sensitive lady were holding hands and crying into each other's sweet tea while hubby sprawled in a drunken stupor on the divan. After Isaev died, they were married. But Maria was frigid, and Dostoevsky was soon complaining: "We're living so-so . . . The heart will wither. I am quite alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Life of a Genius | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...Love (Lena Home; Victor). Lovely Lena's light, smooth voice vibrates with happiness in this so-so song from Wonderful Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Died. Professor Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich, 82, so-so Russian writer (Recollections of the October Revolution), who advanced his Communist Party career as an expert on urban guerilla warfare, served Lenin faithfully as private secretary, survived purges and Stalin to become one of the U.S.S.R.'s oldest Old Bolsheviks; in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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