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Jack Marshall's team is rough and high-scoring the Elis have sunk 40 goals to their opponents 15 and uses the same style of short passing as Crimson coach Bruce Munro. Built around Paul Deitsche, one of the best halfbacks in the East, the Elis are hot and cold, but Munro calls them "probably the best team we'll face all year...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Underdog Varsity Booters Take On Undefeated Yale | 11/21/1952 | See Source »

Change of Course. The comeback was amazing even to the Japanese. By V-J day the U.S. had sunk 80% of Japan's merchant fleet, once the world's third biggest. left it with only one passenger liner, five ocean-going merchantmen and a few hundred overworked and battered coastal vessels. SCAP also scuttled any plans to rebuild the fleet. Under the surrender terms, Japan could build no ships for herself bigger than 5,000 tons, none of them faster than eleven knots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Up from the Bottom | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...nonetheless loads them up with atrocity yarns and heroic bilge till they glow with vicarious martyrdom. In but not of the circle of worshippers is a rather decent couple, Victor and Margot Stamp, who keep turning up like good pennies. Victor is a down & cut Australian painter who has sunk to faking Van Goghs in an Old Masters "factory." Margot, his common-law wife, is a girl with a one-tract mind-not the Communist Manifesto but Victor's welfare. But Victor's Marxist pals have little use for the dialectic of true love. They maneuver Victor into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fighters With the Mouth | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Mankind in its hundreds of millions, is on the march toward what goal and with what destruction on the way no man can foretell. Whole nations have sunk out of sight behind the Iron Curtain; whole peoples have disappeared from view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: STEVENSON ON COMMUNISM | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

This varied composition is explained by assuming that the planet they came from was molten inside. The heavy metal in it had sunk toward the center. The lighter stony stuff had risen toward the surface. In between was a zone containing both metal and stone. So when the planet blew up, its fragments might be either metal or stone or a mixture of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Visitor from Space? | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

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