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What are the wild waves saying? For one thing, they may be warning of a storm 5,000 miles away. Last week Britain's Dr. George Edward Raven Deacon told a symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences how he makes waves spill their secrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wave Warning | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Bill Wasserman took seventh in the slalom, the only notable place secured by the team among the fields of over forty competing in each event. A spill at the last gate of his second run knocked Gerry Genn out of a probable fourth place in this event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Places Eighth In Bitter Indian Scalp Fest | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

...Bogert, the only Harvard skier not to spill on one of his two jumps. went the distance for an eighteenth place in the jumping competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Places Eighth In Bitter Indian Scalp Fest | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

Bands & Torchlights. This was not all. Next week all of New Orleans will quit work, put on a-million dollars' worth of costumes, and spill noisily into the streets. There will be 13 parades with bands, torchlights, and scores of magnificent floats. On Carnival Day a million people will jam along Canal Street, jostle, throw confetti, sing, and, quite possibly, get more than slightly tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Carnival | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...March of Dimes (a donation with a letter is suggested as the price of admission to the contest) collected something like $125,000. Listeners brightly guessed Elsa Maxwell, Maude Adams, Sister Kenny, Tallulah Bankhead, Mary Pickford, Mary Garden. But still nobody guessed right. Last week Miss Hush tried to spill the beans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hushabaloo | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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