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...broken? Help me out of this hole." I reached down and took hold of Stanley Gunn's hand and began trying to lift him gently. A few seconds later when the other correspondents wobbled in with flashlights I realized that there was no hole.. I grabbed a towel and twisted it around his leg for a tourniquet. Gunn was magnificent in spite of the terrible wounds he had suffered. He sat partly up and watched me get the towel adjusted, and even held it himself for a while. Clete Roberts ignored an injured wrist and started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On Leyte | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...display that ever I've seen . . . since I was weaned!" All the best people came to see the Duchess taking her bath in asses' milk, attended by Herman, her Algerian eunuch. "Pray, no ceremony here," Amber would cry, rising from her marble tub: "Herman-fling me a towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ods-Fish, Madame! | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...only after 80 pages of more of the same that Author Winsor herself finally tosses in the towel. Many readers will never finish so poor a book; but many more will doubtless help Macmillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ods-Fish, Madame! | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...headliner of the week was Jeff Hilleran's frantic effort to take off gobs of Don Juan's special mix. Was his face red after ten minutes' work out with a towel. Angle Barsanti was on his trail half the night to warm him but Jeff did an Evangeline on him in the Touraine and eluded Angle by inches...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/26/1944 | See Source »

...things considered, such onetime big-timers as Alabama, Tennessee and Michigan State decided it was time to resume operations after a year's absence from the gridiron. Others, like Princeton and Carnegie Tech, figuring contrariwise, had tossed in the towel for the duration. Of the few teams already in action, Michigan's teens rang the freshman bell loudest last week by winning their opener, 12 -to-7, against the strong Iowa Seahawks (Naval Pre-Flight); 6-ft. 4 Freshman End Dick Rifenburg caught passes and ran for both Michigan touchdowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Teens and TNT | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

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