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...Abner know, Fleegle, a saturnine resident of Brooklyn, has eyes of compelling power. Mother Nature, in a misguided moment, endowed him with the ability to transmit visual whammies. A single whammy can stop a policeman in his tracks. Slightly stronger whammies will tame a gorilla or stun a herd of oxen. Rarely, only rarely, does Fleegle loose the lightning bolt of a double whammy, which is powerful enough to heat a city the size of Wilkes-Barre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Double Whammy | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Harlow is standing by the same nucleus he used to stun Brown last week, with the sole substitution of Stretch Mazzone on the A team. The lanky end will be making his first Varsity start...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Varsity Eleven Closes Shop on Soldiers Field As Crimson Hits the Long Road to New Haven | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

...supplied with rod, reel and heavy 24-thread line that experts would blush at using, he is lugged to Gulf Stream fishing spots. Captain or mate tutors him in the "drop back" sail-fishing technique (i.e., when a fish hits the bait with its bill as if to stun it, the fisherman counts slowly up to ten, then puts his reel in gear and hauls, back to set the hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Landlubber's Luck | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...Profane. The strongest impression communicated by December 7 is that the Japanese attack, coming when it did, calculated to stun and sicken the people by outraging the season that stands for a symbol of peace, to wreak the maximum psychological havoc by undoing a time so beloved and gracious, unleashed emotions with which both the friends and enemies of democracy will have to reckon in the future. There was a telephone call to a Minneapolis radio station: "Why those sons of bitches!" There was a Kansas hunter: "I guess our hunting will be confined to those God damned slant-eyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What the People Said | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...picture is a swing version of the Little Annie Rooney that curly-locked Mary Pickford played to the last tear drop 17 years ago. Shirley is a modern jitterbug from the other side of the tracks. Her talents so stun a rich Manhattan youngster (Dickie Moore) that he invites her to his socialite birthday party. Clad in a glistening, gold-spangled evening dress, Cinderella Temple jitterbugs her way into the Social Register hearts of her boyfriend's parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 1, 1942 | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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