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A muted-trumpet statement of Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man led into a tricky blues section: four saxophones playing over pizzicato plunk-plunks in the strings. The wow-finale brought back Ol' Man River for full symphony orchestra plus saxo phones, harmonica, banjo, guitar, organ, glockenspiel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Show Boat in Cleveland | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

Scoring once in the first quarter, again in the second quarter and twice in the last quarter, the Crimson Jayvees never let their opponents get started. When it did get the ball, Northeastern featured passes and tricky laterals, none of which gained much ground.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvees Open Season Wallop '45 Huskies | 10/25/1941 | See Source »

> Can Stanford, robbed of two of the three quick-breaking backs that made the tricky T formation click, march into the Rose Bowl again this year?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Get In There & Fight | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

There was a much bigger, tougher boy named Joe. One day at cries of "Fight! Fight!" Bellamy came skating across the pond to find Herb on his back and Joe on top of him. "Herb had a tricky way of rolling an opponent who tried to pin him down; but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nostalgia | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

Evacuating Foochow the Japanese declared that, having destroyed the Foochow supply route into China's interior, they need no longer pin troops there. This was nonsense. Even the Japanese must have known that they had not wiped from the minds of the coastal men the memory of tricky paths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN FRONT: FOOCHOW RECAPTURED | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

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