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Little College. Sleepy, sloppy, 38-year-old Brick Fleagle organized his 16-man club after commercial bands rejected many of his arrangements as too hot to handle. Today the band has a "book" of 50 compositions, 48 of them by Brick (Fried Piper, Frost on the Moon, Swamp Mist, etc.). It also has a waiting list of about fifty musicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brick's Boys Go Riding | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

Good Riddance. In Raleigh, N.C., the state board of education sold a piece of swamp land called Purgatory, hoped to dispose next of neighboring Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 23, 1945 | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

Frontier Mother. George Norris' father was a farmer living in the "Black Swamp" country of northern Ohio. George was only three when his father died. But he remembered his mother well. In his recollection of her, Mary Magdalene Norris emerges as the archetype of frontier woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making of a Statesman | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

Expecting to swamp the CRIMSON's stalwart nine, the hahahasters unwittingly challenged their erstwhile opponents to a meeting on the field of baseball. Realizing his irretrievable error, O. J. Zwoncus '49, Poon prexy, yesterday bemoaned his fate, "Holy cheest, we ain't got a chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nation Hails 23-2 Win Tomorrow As Diamond Struggle of the Ages | 5/11/1945 | See Source »

Walton was finally rescued from the pear tree, but for the next three days he was under constant fire-never had his boots off, got only three hours sleep in 72. Once he had to plunge through a swamp, wade away from the enemy with machine-gun bullets pinging all around him. But all during those hours he somehow managed to hang on to his typewriter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

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