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...winning times indicate. Stroke Charlie Rimmer pushed the stroke up to 38 with a half-mile left, but could not force the Crimson shell into the two-way struggle between the leaders, who widened the distance to a length and a quarter over Harvard before Princeton squeaked to a three-foot margin at the finish. Once again, Rutgers wallowed in its opponents' wakes

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Crew Breaks Record at Princeton; Track Team Crushes H.C. and B.U. | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...young, African art student at Uganda's Makerere College set out to make his own symbol. Gregory Maloba, 19, had some tribal lore in the back of his head, little knowledge of any other art tradition. Death, he thought, should be "not unkind but inscrutable." Out of a three-foot mahogany log, he carved a horned shape of power (see cut). Maloba's Death did no grinning, whispering, or shoulder-tapping; the Shape stood pityingly behind its victim, and crushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Shape of Death | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...horribly thirsty in the morning. Eight feet away, just beyond a little willow tree, a three-foot creek purled and gurgled. Desperately he began rolling his head, eating tufts of grass which grew within reach. That afternoon he heard a hammer banging near by; he knew someone was mending the fence his car had shattered. He screamed, hammered on the fender with his free hand. There was no answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Five Days | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...roof. Although the band doesn't play "A Bicycle Built For Two," the effect is quite convincing if not entirely stylish. Another show-stopper hides under the title of the Newest Sensation on the High-wire, and the star (also new in the States) manages to skip a three-foot rope nearer the ceiling than anywhere else. Before and after his dance he walks up and down a slanting wire, and, though he sways back and forth some, he hasn't slipped yet and may live as long as one of Ringling's elephants. These last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Circusgoer | 5/20/1947 | See Source »

...world by a jazz musician named Slim Gaillard. Its practitioners called themselves Vouts (pronounced Vowts), prefixed names with the symbol "cat-o," said "scooto" for goodbye, and added "reeny" to almost every other word to give it class. When two male Vouts met they whirled their "jelly chains" (three-foot watch chains), bent, backwards from the knees, and reached up to shake hands at eye level. New Orleans girls were wearing bells on their shoes and carrying ''slam books"-notebooks in which they exchanged brutally frank comment on all their friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Reeny Season | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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