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North Carolina defeated the varsity twice by 14-1 scores when the two teams met during the Crimson's spring tour this year. The Tar Heels have also beaten Presbyterian, a squad that downed the Crimson April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Tar Heel Squad to Oppose Varsity in Tennis | 5/4/1955 | See Source »

Clutches & Kisses. Happy was certainly noisy enough. When a Hazard voter suggested some songs, Happy was agreeable. "You git us a git-tar," he said, "and we'll have a singing today." A past master at gladhanding. Chandler greeted all constituents as "Brother," or "Honey," glibly filled in the proper names as his local frontmen supplied them: "Good to shake your hand, Mrs. Lewis. You know my daughter married a Lewis, honey. Say hello to Mr. Lewis for me." Whenever possible, he applied the personal touch: a fervent handclasp, an embrace, a clutched arm, a kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Happy Days | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...South American heavyweight, and Firpo's bout with Jack Dempsey in 1923. Said Ike: "In the first round he knocked Dempsey so far out into the audience that he broke two or three typewriters for the newspapermen. But Dempsey crawled back in the ring and whipped the tar out of him. Now, I don't think the Republican Party has any idea of being a Firpo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Remember Firpo | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...like to tar and feather Dior, and run him out of town. Why did he have to build me up just to let me down? I can hang my head, and drop my bra and appear a flattened frump, But Christian, tell me dear, how do I batten down the rump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 6, 1954 | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...Kooning's expressionistic abstractions of the 19403 looked like angry snarls of tar, snow, syrup and a little blood dexterously applied with a bent spoon. But lately, De Kooning has become obsessed with a creature he calls "woman." It bears some resemblance to the Mom made infamous by Author Philip Wylie. De Kooning's women (opposite) are certainly the most violent and perhaps the most powerful paintings in the entire Biennale. If the purpose of painting were, as some have claimed, simply the release of emotion, De Kooning would have to be accounted great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under the Four Winds: Under the Four Winds | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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