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...baseball careers this June. The Crimson would feel confident of victory tomorrow were it not for the fact that Tom Healey has been treated rather roughly in his last two starts. The Ithacans shelled him off the mound three weeks ago but on that occasion he was attempting to twirl his second game in as many days. This time he will be fully rested. In addition, Slim Curtiss has turned in several neat performances and is ready to step in if needed; and Charley Brackett has received his baptism under fire. Curtiss won the Penn game last Friday and almost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER | 5/23/1939 | See Source »

...notch weight combination that the Crimson's hopes are pinned. George Downing, who won this event last year, seems sure to win the shot, and Nat Heard should have an excellent chance to break into the point column. In the hammer Ithacan McKeever is favored to out-twirl Bill Shallow, but not by much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORNELL FAVORITE TO WIN TRACK MEET | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

Elsie Janis was back on Broadway for the first time since 1928. After years in retirement, Elsie has not slowed up. With no voice to speak of, she still puts a song across. She can, for the hell of it, still turn a cartwheel or twirl a rope. She screws up her face and becomes Sarah Bernhardt, juggles her voice and becomes Ethel Barrymore. Or she just wanders around the stage dropping patter soft as daisies until bang! something sharp pops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Comebacks | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Downing Street it was said that Mr. Chamberlain will not take to Paris any retinue of British Foreign Office experts. Experts of the French Foreign Office expected to be left to twirl their thumbs by M. Daladier. To a great extent Munich was the product of "personal diplomacy" conducted by the Big Four- this being European for U. S. "shirtsleeve diplomacy." Shoved into the background last week, British and French experts, many of whom are "pipe lines" to favorite correspondents, hinted that Chamberlain and Daladier would probably discuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Big Four | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...enclosed lower portion duplicated on a hurricane bridge above. On the bridge no great spoked wheel governs the Oslofjord's, helm, but a modern button-control system-a button for port and one for starboard. To the suggestion that old-line Norse steersmen might prefer the traditional twirl of the wheel to this newfangled steering, weathered Captain Kjeld Irgens, commodore of the Norwegian America fleet, had a gruff answer. "Quartermasters," said he grimly, "shall learn to like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: After Leif | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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