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Watchers obscured in the recesses of third story boudoirs eyed the crimson-wearers' unique 7-1 defense with critical eye until the hard charging line roared into the girls' backfield. With their wits about the, however, the swivel hipped runners were, as always, hard to lay a hand on and managed to wile their way touchdownward. "Skidmore'll be a pushover," one bedungareed spectator was heard to remark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fleet 'Cliffewomen Escape Grasps Of Funsters on Perfumed Gridiron | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

George Bernard Shaw, who, at 41, climbed off his soapbox to become socialist member of London's St. Pancras borough council, was prevented (by a fall) from receiving the council's belated recognition: freedom of the borough. He had tumbled from his swivel chair and bruised a leg. But he delivered an acceptance speech anyway (by radio transcription). Said Shaw: "When one is very old, as I am . . . your legs give in before your head does. Consequently you're always tumbling about. I tumble down about three times a week . . . and . . . it was perfectly plain that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Suddenly ex-G.I. Halfback Bob Livingstone, a star in '42, swivel-hips his way past three tacklers before being slammed to earth 40 yards downfield. "See," says Funless Frank bitterly, "he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crusaders & Slaves | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Whatever his chief target may have been, Generalissimo Joseph Stalin's peace talk, like a swivel-mounted machine gun, raked world affairs from a variety of interesting angles last week. The talk consisted of answers to nine apparently prearranged questions by London Sunday Times Russophile Correspondent Alexander Werth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Coo | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

There was, for example, the short, happy life of Tom ("Shorty") McWilliams at Mississippi State. For one dazzling season in 1944, Freshman McWilliams, a swivel-hipped halfback, looked like the best up-&-coming player in Southeastern Conference history. No one was surprised when Shorty showed up on West Point's unbeatable 1945 team. There were plenty more like him; they turned up three deep at both West Point and Annapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black Market in Football | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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