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...rabbit shall burrow and the thorn revisit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: 1,000 Lost Golf Balls | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...slow or breakneck speeds, so that they sound like either a foghorn or Donald Duck. On one occasion he treated his listeners to ten minutes of Bach, with interpolated comments and seal yelps. Conductor Mark Warndw, after hearing a Hawthorne show, said judiciously: "He's half haw, half thorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Peachy-Keen | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...Thorn, who bashed out a triple, Leverett edged Dunster in yesterday's only intramural baseball tilt, 5 to 4. Both teams, short of legitimate House players, used ringers by mutual agreement. In softball, Bill Johnson's one-hitter assisted Eliot to an easy 8 to 0 win over Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett, Eliot Win | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

Write a Letter. During the previous weekend, thousands of visitors had been welcomed at the club to watch the famed Masters' Tournament (TIME, April 19). Now, as Ike and George vanished behind the club's waist-high thorn hedge, every visitor was politely turned back at the entrance by a uniformed Pinkerton guard. Anyone who asked to communicate with Ike was told to write him a letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Spring Vacation | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...remains a mystery. Some critics have speculated that Juenger's close connections with German army leaders saved his book and his skin; others felt that the Nazi censors were unwilling to admit they had been asleep at the switch. In any case, On the Marble Cliffs remained a thorn in the Nazi side throughout the war. When the Russians were attacked, they translated and published it-though its denunciation of tyranny fits more than one foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Steel to Faith | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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