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...Wilkinson saw his boys roll for 310 yds. on the ground, connect for three touchdown passes and top off the scoring with a 13-yd. touchdown dash by Right Half Clendon Thomas. "We have a heck of a lot of polishing to do," said modest Oklahoma Co-Captain Don Stiller, just as if he had not noticed the final 26-0 score. The remark made almost as much sense as Coach Wilkinson's pre-game prediction: "Frankly, we don't expect to win at all." ¶ Bogged down by a driving rainstorm, Texas A. & M. needed every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: And Still Champs | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...female roles are somewhat colorless, but this is the playwright's fault. The supporting male cast, however, is first-rate, especially Thomas Carlin, who gives an impersonation of a Dutchman that would make Danny Kaye proud. My only reservation is Jerry Stiller as Firk the apprentice; his performance, though funny in itself, is stylistically incongruous with the speech and manner of all the other actors...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Shoemaker's Holiday | 7/19/1956 | See Source »

...same untrue statements are repeated as if we had never answered them." Said Marshall: "... A pure propaganda statement. [Mr. Molotov] makes it rather difficult to inspire respect for the dignity of the Soviet Government." Molotov tautened, stared straight at the blue table. "He looked," said one observer, "a little stiller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Adjournment | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...North Conway, N.H. the school he founded in the Austrian Tyrol. At Manchester, Vt. his onetime assistant, Otto Lang, has transplanted the school he operated at Sun Valley during the past two years. Among Lang's corps of assistants are many famed Alpine experts, including Shirley ("Elli") Stiller, one of the few women instructors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wartime Skiscape | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...treats trouble tranquilly. His paintings have volume, seem big even when they are small. Using low-keyed earth colors-burnt sienna, ochre, silver grey, black, dull red, dark green-and firm, concise lines, he strikes a sober balance between emotion and restraint. Savage as an air raid but far stiller is his Pogrom, a huddled heap of corpses lying quietly on a Torah scroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Brazil | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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