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...another, offering pointers. A few familiar faces dot the middle of the infield. At second, regular Tom Cavanaugh is battling it out with small but sure-handed sophomore John Canepa. The double-play combination runs off smoothly when Captain Johnny White steps in at shot to play the uneven dirt floor like a professional...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/24/1951 | See Source »

When Theodore Dreiser died, scarcely five years age, at the age of seventy-five, he left behind him a long, uneven, and controversial career that included thousands of pages of literary make shift and two or three books which made up for all the rest. In this new study of Dreiser, which was finished by Professor F. O. Matthiessen just before his death last spring and is now published posthumously, the details of Dreiser's life have been subordinated to an analysis of his important work--and the result is a thoroughly satisfying critical essay, though it cannot be called...

Author: By Aloysius B. Mccabe, | Title: Matthiessen on Dreiser | 3/15/1951 | See Source »

Percentage & Average. Any roulette wheel can develop a slight imbalance, or an imperceptible rough spot which makes the friction uneven as it turns. This will favor certain numbers, and a player who discovers it may profit briefly. But a properly run casino checks the wheels constantly and changes them from table to table just to guard against such innocent larceny. The astonishing thing in Señor Delgado's case was that despite all normal precautions he kept on winning, in seeming defiance of the laws of percentage and average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Bank Breakers | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...Wednesday. An uneven but often funny comedy, written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Harold Lloyd (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...Wednesday. An uneven but often funny comedy, written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Harold Lloyd (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 22, 1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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