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...most of four rounds in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field, Bobo Olson draped himself all over Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, but eventually he made the big mistake: for a split second he uncovered his teacup jaw. One lethal left hook and Bobo was a has-been, Sugar Ray, 36, still champ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 28, 1956 | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...aflame with rich living, has much the appearance of a gigantic red pepper. But the big voice is just as big as ever, and though no better for training, it does not seem to be any worse for the careless wear he gives it. Lanza still can rattle a teacup at 20 paces with his high C, and with this picture he seems sure to rattle the cash registers all across the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...strike was threatened, but Dr. Johnson and his chapter cohorts thumbed down the raise, summarily suspended the choristers' spokesman on a handy pretext. Last week, with the suspended singer toying with the idea of lorming a choristers' union, Dr. Johnson chortled: "A storm in a teacup! They're all there, singing away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 5, 1956 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

Novelist Goncharov was incapable of firing off the demoniac, soul-searching pyrotechnics of a Tolstoy or a Dostoevsky, but with quiet irony and firm psychological realism he stirred his TNT in a teacup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hamlet in Bed | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...picture, co-authored and directed by Lawrence Huntington, is a leisurely, literate and pungent whodunit from England, graced with good performances and laced with gentle wit. All in all, The Franchise Affair is a polite little storm in a teacup. It is also an exceedingly well-brewed cinematic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

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