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...long could the 27-year-old National (pro) Football League ignore the existence of its baby brother, the two-year-old All-America Conference? For the past two weeks, in a turnstile war in New York City, the new league has outdrawn the old. This week, 39,012 cash customers went to Yankee Stadium to see the talented New York Yankees roll by the Buffalo Bills, 35-13, and cinch All-America's eastern division championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Turnstiles & Touchdowns | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Farm is as deep in reserves as a Notre Dame football squad. Besides Armed, its stars include a plump little filly named Bewitch, whose high hindquarters make her look as if she were walking downhill. Winner of eight straight races, she is still unbeaten, easily the No. 1 two-year-old of the year. Also on the first team: Fervent, who broke the track record in the $60,000 American Derby; Faultless, the winner of last spring's Preakness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Ways | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...when Fran Pratt was graduated from Yale and went to work for General Electric in his home town of Schenectady, the circulation of two-year-old TIME was 75,000. In 1939, when he came to TIME after a hitch at the Harvard Business School and considerable experience in retailing and magazine publishing, our circulation was 750,000. Today, with over 1,500,000 paid circulation in his corner, he could be forgiven for relaxing a bit. But Pratt, who is a ruddy, blue-eyed, eupeptic father of three (two boys, a girl) with an appalling propensity for work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Hollywood stayed right in its groove. Rita Hay worth took steps to have her two-year-old daughter (by Orson Welles) made a corporation director in mother's new producing firm. Actor Wallace Ford beat a drunken driving rap by explaining that he drove the way he did because his whiskers kept blowing in his face. Ex-Ziegfeld Beauty Boots Mallory, arrested for drunken driving, was freed to await trial. Actor Lionel Stander & wife filed petitions in bankruptcy, listing assets of $3,150, liabilities of $33,772.77. Actor Lawrence (Dillinger) Tierney, who had been spending his weekends in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Golden West | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...were lucky. Last week Mr. & Mrs. Sybrand van der Dussen arrived in New York with their eleven children. Sturdy Dutch burghers from Rotterdam, they had a somewhat unnerving time at LaGuardia Airport. They were surrounded by newsmen, and two-year-old Jacobus almost got tangled in a huge electric fan. They were bound for Los Angeles and a brother-in-law's dairy farm-"to find a good future for the children." A newsman asked Mrs. van der Dussen if such a future could not be found in Europe? The stout Dutch woman shrugged, moved her hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: To Find a Future | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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