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No Help at First. Branch Rickey's do's & don'ts strangely enough, did not include any instructions on how to play baseball. Although Jackie had played second base or shortstop all his life, he was handed a first-baseman's mitt and sent out to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie of the Year | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Ballooning Profits. Fox & friends gambled $175,000 and borrowed more from banks to manufacture and market Bub-O-Loon. He took in two partners, who got together a company to work out the tricky process of putting the plastic into the tubes, and lined up nine plants in seven cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Blow Your Own | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

The regular intramural league will be in operation this year with the Kirkland team out to hold onto the crown they gained last November by downing the seven other competitors. Stubborn defense and a tricky T-formation attack helped them crush strong outfits from Loverett and Eliot which held early...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Second Eleven Reorganization Keynotes New Intramural Sports Schedule; Kirkland Defends Crown | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

After waiting half an hour for Britain's Royal Family to arrive for the final match, Kramer went to work on fellow Californian Tom Brown. It was not even close. Kramer's big serve, with its high and tricky bounce, his skill at the net, his brilliant passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unbeatable | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

For months, Italy's art experts had debated how to preserve Da Vinci's masterpiece, the Last Supper, which Allied bombings exposed to the weather after it had already faded and blistered through the years (TIME, Dec. 9). Last week, an Italian Government Advisory Commission came up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Air-Conditioned Frame | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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