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...downstream for the start of the last heat of the afternoon, Winthrop's stroke "Dunc" McCollester broke his oar in a fit of youthful exhuberance, delaying the race till the late supper hour. It proved to be an ill omen for hapless Dudley's octet, which chopped its way past the white flag roughly a minute after Winthrop...

Author: By David G. Braaten, | Title: Indians Conquer Varsity Nine, 9-6; Eliot, Adams, Puritan Eights Win | 5/5/1948 | See Source »

Your article entitled "Poison Pen" [TIME, April 12] has all the markings of a wait-till-next-week serial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...gliding through Oxford's quadrangles in his long-tailed coat, became a powerful influence among the undergraduates. They packed the ancient church of St. Mary's to hear his sermons. "As he began to preach, his voice was faint but musical, its pitch rising, though always controlled, till 'the very tones . . . seemed as if they were something more than his own,' as if a power beyond him spoke through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Convert | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Marlboro, N.Y., the farmhouse of the late Frederic W. Goudy, famed designer of printing types, was put up for auction. Till the day of the sale, Goudy's family had hoped that somebody might offer to make a "shrine" of the place, but nobody had come forward. Then Ralph C. Coxhead, manufacturer of VariTyper machines (widely used by publishers whose typesetters go on strike), got the farm on an $18,000 bid. His plan: to "perpetuate it as a shrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Happy Days | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...Many Died? Author Jones tells the long story in chronicled detail: the disappearances (till bodies turned up later); the killings in "justified self-defense"; the kidnaping and executions. One day in 1882 the Hatfields intercepted seven peace officers who were taking some of Old Randolph McCoy's sons to jail for the knifing of a Hatfield. The youngest McCoy began to cry. Said Wall Hatfield gruffly, "I'm not going to hurt you." But next day the wounded Hatfield died. His kinsmen turned on the hostages. The bodies of Tolbert, Phamer and young Randolph McCoy were found tied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Folk Feud | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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