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...taciturn ten offers ten-room house for immediate sacrifice sale. Tennis Court. Nr. Beach in Santa Monica. $26,000 in direct sale by owner; $11,000 cash required. Call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Repercussion | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Such mass chess fights were an old story to taciturn, 38-year-old, Polish-born Sammy Reshevsky. When he was nine, and a newcomer to the U.S., he had taken on the 20 best chessers at West Point simultaneously and beaten them all. He has competed for the U.S. championship six times since then, and won it each time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Back to the Tables | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Friends said that Desseau, whose interests in the Freshman Register are listed as football, swimming, skiing, and poker, was usually taciturn. However, when he did talk, it was often of Tacoma and his high school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missing Freshman Turns Up, Will Leave College, Go Home | 1/21/1950 | See Source »

...Taciturn and colorless, he won his private prestige among the President's private men by the sheer orderliness of his legalistic mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tick, Tock | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Thanks to its taciturn strong man, Police Chief José ("Chichi") Remón, Panama had three Presidents last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arnulfo Again | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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