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...last pass in the season's strangest game was incomplete. The pistol shot sounded and the game was over. Score: 26-to-26. Ohio State and Illinois trotted toward their dressing rooms, and 36,331 spectators drifted from the stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: P.S. | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...round softies of today, get on your feet and salute a man." The man thus challengingly saluted: Frank Crosby, dead in his mid-70s, who 50 years ago fought the longest and strangest knockout fight in history. The saluter: Ed Wray, St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seventy-Seven Rounds | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...recorded years of duck-hunting, the season that opened last week was the strangest; the ducks were booming -but not the hunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unhappy Hunters | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...combat flyer's trade at Miami Beach. But Cadet Wissenback is different. He has already had an unusual military career. He holds the Air Medal and the Purple Heart, and when Germany is knocked out (but not before) he will be able to tell one of the strangest stories of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Man with a Past | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...proud, slight (105 lb.) man, known professionally as Tom, is the owner of one of the strangest stomachs in existence. This stomach was the subject last week of a book (Human Gastric Function; Oxford University Press; $4.75), by Drs. Stewart Wolf and Harold G. Wolff of Manhattan's New York Hospital. Says famed Physiologist Walter B. Cannon in his foreword: "The functions of the stomach have never been investigated with the detailed care, the skill and ingenuity" that Drs. Wolf & Wolff display in their researches on Tom's stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tom's Stomach | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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