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...Crimson have turned up no super-stars during the season, but has a number of very fine players, from whom much may be heard in later years. In the line Captain Tom Healy and Carrick Heiskell have been outstanding both offensively and defensively, while the swivel-hipped runs of Quarterback Torbert Macdonald have caused the opposition many anxious moments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN ELEVEN MEETS YALE THIS AFTERNOON | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

...honor of buying the first $1.10 seat, one Tony Albano planted himself at the head of the line 12 days before the ticket window opened, slept in a swivel chair, ate food brought to him by a colored friend with whom he ungraciously refused to be photographed. To reporters he proudly announced that he had been fourth in line in 1933, that he would not sell his place for $50, that he was an unemployed truck driver who had been living on $60-a-month relief for three years and that, while waiting, he had been told that Mrs. Tony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants v. Yankees | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...modern trailer is no longer an ugly wooden box. Anywhere from 14 to 30 feet long, it is a streamlined lozenge of light metal with curtained windows, chromium fittings, a simple swivel joint at the bow where it couples with the automobile. Inside, it is as compactly luxurious as the cabin of a small cruiser. A 14-footer may have three davenports which convert into beds, a stove, icebox, sink, large closets, table. A 20-footer may have two rooms, shower, chemical toilet, desk, chairs, breakfast nook. All sizes are neatly outfitted, with wood veneer on the walls, linoleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Nation of Nomads? | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...played with him for years were amazed at Giese's facility, the way his big hand moved crab-fashion over the keyboard, producing harmonics and arpeggios with seemingly little effort. Most bull fiddlers stand up to their instruments. Waldemar Giese has a specially designed stool with a swivel seat and a foot rest (see cut) which give him support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bull Fiddler | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...class of 1937, worked his way by washing cars. As a freshman, he ran through the entire Iowa varsity six times in one afternoon of football practice. As a sophomore, he was the star of an Iowa team that sometimes gave him half-hearted support. Last week, speedy, swivel-hipped, elusive Oze Simmons snaked through Illinois for a 71-yd. run & touchdown in the second period. Captain Dick Crayne made two more in the last, kept Iowa undefeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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