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Pig-Tailed Champion. By the seventh day, the red-faced U.S. was still hoping for its first Olympic victory. The girl who won it was slim, brown-haired Gretchen Fraser of Vancouver, Wash., who wears pigtails and looks younger than her 29 years. No one gave her (or any other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Altius, Citius, Fortius! | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Before the war, Johnny Littler was a China coaster, sailing offshore and threading the tricky passages of the Yangtze. Through the war, he was one of the Royal Canadian Navy's ace navigators. On Atlantic convoy duty, said he, "the Admiral thought nothing of going to sleep while I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE SERVICES: The Blind Eye | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

But this operetta goes a lot further than any of its predecessors. "Utopia Ltd." has been unpopular since its first night in 1893 because it is just about as satiric as a light opera can be. Instead of attacking such innocent clay-pigeons as the nobility or Oscar Wilde or...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

The Paradine Case. Alfred Hitchcock's tense and rather too tricky courtroom tale of a woman's trial and a lawyer's error; with Gregory Peck surrounded by supporting stars (TIME, Jan. 12).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Undefeated Yardling skaters successfully hurdled their first major stumbling block yesterday, beating a strong Cambridge Latin sextet 4 to 1, but the Jayvees could not solve the tricky passing of the B.U. Freshman and lost their first game of the season, 1 to 3.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV's Bow to B.U. In Hockey Debut; '51 Six Wins, 4-1 | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

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