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Kid Galahad. Wham! Whomp! Thunk! Glunk! The Kid in the white satin trunks with the shamrock-green piping is down. The ringside crowd is up and roaring. "Sev-hin, A-yut, Nigh-yen"-the Kid's up again. He's bleeding at the mouth. How much more of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jelloweight | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

Harvard will compete in the varsity division. The first event will be the "Happi Bagh" (elephant run), which is a sprint. Then comes the "Poni Cohn" (water thief), in which the elephants must carry a bucket of water in their trunks without getting the mahouts wet.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elephant Race Will Attract Huge Crowd in California | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

In the middle of this blot, Holtzman and colleagues see a sumo wrestler. A subject who sees a fat devil flanked by two thin ones would have little to worry about. But the interpretation, "A fat cannibal king with two pregnant women," says Holtzman, "is rich with hostility toward women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Reaching Beyond Rorschach | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

Nowhere are the issues more fervently debated than in the constituency of North Bombay, where a splenetic and tireless politician is campaigning hard to retain his parliamentary seat. His name is plastered on thousands of opposition posters slapped on tree trunks, buildings and boulders all over North Bombay. The posters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Tea-Fed Tiger | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

A massive-shouldered, thick-chested Negro with thighs like tree trunks, Ferguson puts such savage strength into his pile-driving charges that he has been stopped behind the line only three times in three years of bruising Big Ten ball. "He has impossible power," said Northwestern Coach Ara Parseghian after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bulldozing Buckeye | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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