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...sport luncheon explaining that he was bothered by 1) an old knee injury, 2) a shot of morphine to quiet the knee, 3) a double Daiquiri to quiet the morphine. His stories usually pictured his own rampaging footballers (among them Marshall Goldberg and Charles Trippi) as shy, timid little fellows who screamed unless he kept buying them lollipops and tucked them into bed at night. The opposition were brutes who combed their hair with wildcat claws. He fancied himself as the depressed coach without material who concentrated on character-building-and wasn't very good at that either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Refugee from Football | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

When Rudolph came into the world, in 1858, his father promptly made him a colonel of Hungarian Light Infantry, and before he was six years old, put him in the care of a senior army officer. Sickly, timid Colonel Rudolph was toughened by being awakened at midnight with a fusillade of revolver shots; then he would be dragged outdoors in early morning and put through a drill. When he seemed to be growing interested in science and politics, he was turned over to a new "tutor" who introduced him to night life and sex. After he had thus contracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tailor's Death | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

This newspaper will not knuckle under to the fears that are gripping the timid, the small-minded, and the owners of ski resorts; it is just such a super-natural, cosmic crisis that can call forth in the individual a stamina and vigor which transcends ordinary, day-to-day courage. Besides, the Old Farmer's Almanac predicts snow within a week. That's good enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eastport to Block Island | 1/11/1949 | See Source »

...artist, Churchill made a timid start, but his fighting nature soon reasserted itself. "We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paintbox. And for this Audacity is the only ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Joy Ride in a Paint-Box | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...from which to shoot over the iron fence and bushes into the grounds. Along Grosvenor Place, which overlooks the grounds, they ran into a snag: leases on the houses there, owned by the Duke of Westminster, prohibit tenants from creating any nuisance for their royal neighbors, so tenants were timid about cameramen. But a few lensmen talked their way to the rooftops and began a long vigil that lasted through eight rainy, cold days, and the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Royal Secret | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

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