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Eliot scored first in the Winthrop game when Jim Rossiter passed to Troop Hilder in the end zone in the first half. An attempted pass conversion failed to pick up the extra point, and the deficiency was to worry the elephants later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Stretches Skein; Kirkland Wins | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

...however, was still unprepared for a troop withdrawal; the U.S.-sponsored South Korean Republic had a native defense force of only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Gracious Gesture | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Typical are the contortions of Lucky Strike cigarettes, which prance through a complex square dance. Rheingold beer cans and bottles troop by a reviewing stand, while overhead drones a beer-keg blimp. Sheffield, hawking a soft drink, takes an inexpensive way out: a paper orange with a metal base is scooted across the screen by means of a concealed magnet. Sanka coffee and other advertisers have adapted the novelties (popup techniques and hinged limbs) common in children's books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sponsors' World | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...detailed than anything Dorothy Dix ever attempted. Saint Chrysostom (347-407) wrote that no wife should say to her husband: " 'Unmanly coward and lazy sluggard, look at that man . . . His wife wears jewels and goes out with a pair of milk-white mules. She is attended by a troop of slaves, but you have cowered down and live to no purpose.' But if a wife does so speak, her husband shall say to her: 'My dear, when I could have taken many to wife, both with better fortunes and of noble family, I did not so choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Marriage | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...father retired, Stan got Inter-Island to give planes a try. He started in November 1929 with two eight-passenger Sikorsky Amphibions. In 1941 Hawaiian bought three Douglas DC-3s, just in time to cash in on war traffic. All Inter-Island's passenger boats were put into troop service, so civilians had to use Hawaiian Airlines to get from island to island. Hawaiian also flew food from outlying ranches into Honolulu, and when Hilo's main laundry closed down (TIME, May 12, 1947), provided two-day service from a laundry on the island of Maui...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trolley Line | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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