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...shifty tailback for U.S.C.. but when he reported to the pros, Gifford got a rude awakening. "They don't tap you," he says. "They jar the confidence right out of you, and you spend most of the first season picking up the pieces." While picking up, Frank decided that pro football is considerably more fun and infinitely more complicated than the college game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: See Yourself & Groan | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...Crimson's second straight Ivy League win, and its fourth consecutive win of the year. By winning last night the team posted its longest season-opening streak since 1945, when it won its first six games. The 92-point mark, reached by Bob Barnett's last second tap-in, was only a point short of the I.A.B. record, and marked the most points the Crimson has ever achieved in a League game...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Varsity Five Overwhelms Brown 92-47 in Second Ivy League Win | 12/20/1956 | See Source »

Others who took sober second readings recognized, in the words of London's Spectator, "that the Americans did not go it alone; we have. The [British] government decided that the Anglo-American alliance was something that could be switched off like a tap. Almost immediately it got thirsty and tried to switch it on again. Finding it could not do so, it has been relieving its feelings by kicking the tap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALLIANCES: The New Relationship | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Challenge from Belgium. Out of habit the Army spurned the chance to tap private industry for new ideas, turned instead to its arsenal at Springfield, Mass., which developed such trusty performers as the bolt-action Model 1903 of World War I and the M 1 Garand of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Aluminum Rifle | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...evening progressed the cold outside and the tempo inside increased apace. The Tiger Inn had free Bud-weiser on tap, Lester Lanin played for dancing at Cottage, and somebody from Rutgers claimed that another club had liquor downstairs that "just won't quit...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Chilled Crimson Intruders Find Little Cheer at Princeton Clubs | 11/13/1956 | See Source »

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