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...have striven to boost production is John MacPherson, who lives in an eight-room house in Villa Nova outside Glace Bay. Last week "Tossy" MacPherson, father of seven girls and a boy, was on the night trick. He slept until midday, had a noon meal and then, carrying his supper in a lunch box, walked a quarter-mile to Dosco's Sydney & Louisburg Railway to catch the "Hobo," a work-train of boxcars fitted with benches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Of Mines & Men | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...tidy farm near Chickamauga, Ga., the Negro Masonic lodge held its meeting in the open air. After a picnic supper, with heaps of fried chicken and hot biscuits, everybody filed into a little church in a grove. The ladies put on a fine program of songs and recitations. Then Brother Haslerig, the chairman, called on his house guest, Brother James R. Crawford, to offer a few remarks "preferably regarding the status of our people back in Pittsburgh." But it was getting late, so the visitor from Pittsburgh just stood and took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brother Crawford | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...skimpiest eaters big-time heavyweight boxing has ever known. After a five-mile run he breakfasts on prunes, two eggs, a lamb chop, tea and toast. Then comes a mile walk, a nap until noon (he eats no lunch) and seven rounds' workout in the afternoon. For supper he does not wolf a 3-lb. steak (as Billy Conn used to), but settles for a smaller one. He looks lighter than his 196 Ibs. Most remarkable about him is the fact that he seems to get better just when most boxers get worse-after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Challenger | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...paintings often mean just what their titles say: Sea Sickness-a green, checkered coat crumpled beneath the glare of a garish orange sun; The Last Meal-a macabre scene of a candlelit room, in which tears drop from nowhere and a woman brings a dying man an indigestible last supper of wine, a carrot and a hard-boiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sleepworker | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Only shift in the day's schedule came when cocktails and buffet supper, featuring an octet of bag-pipers, was moved from Sever Quadrangle to Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain Doesn't Halt 25th Anniversary | 6/9/1948 | See Source »

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