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...years as Chicago's football coach, "Old Man Stagg," as he is still affectionately called, was always ready to join the fun-provided it was good, clean fun. He never allowed his players to swear on the field or in the locker room. He was a training-table model for his athletes because he never smoked or drank-not even coffee or tea. Always trying to improve the game, Coach Stagg devised one innovation after another-e.g., the tackling dummy (made from an old mattress), spread formation, tackle back shift and end-around plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Coach | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...full advantage of your title," Cucuface tells Prince Bemelmans. "You are now no longer a tourist to be pushed about. You are the one to do the pushing. You will give bad tips and be better served than anyone else. You must not pay your bills and shopkeepers will swear that you are indeed a real prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cuckoo! | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...Fairway. In Sacramento, William V. Vineyard decided to swear off golf after he was 1) hit in the midriff by a drive during a morning round, 2) knocked out by another that afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 9, 1952 | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...doting grandmother, and writes weekly to her son, Infantry Major John (who last week received orders to report to the Far East this summer-see NEWS in PICTURES). She smokes Philip Morrises and plays canasta tirelessly. Until three months ago, when her doctor asked her to swear off alcohol because of a heart murmur, she drank old-fashioneds at parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The General's Lady | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...reporters. Cain, a staffer for the afternoon Star-Telegram, drove his car as close as he could get to the test field, and for days kept watch, until colleagues began calling him "Audubon Cain, the bird watcher." When he finally spotted the YB-60 in flight he could only swear; it was too late to make his last edition, and the morning Star-Telegram, also owned by Carter, would get the break on the story. Then, in a flight of B-36s hovering high overhead, Cain saw something odd. One of the B-36s let something drop. It shot away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Catching the Bird | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

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