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Pennsylvania, according to Crimson coach Bill McCurdy, is an unknown quantity. Jim Smith leads a veteran team which finished second in last year's triangular meet, 24 points behind the victorious Crimson. It has apparently not been too well bostered by members of last year's freshman squad, a team which finished a distant third in the triangular freshman race...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Unbeaten Runners to Face Lions, Penn in Meet Today | 10/19/1956 | See Source »

...undergo a thorough physical examination. With the health question such an important issue of the current presidential campaign, why shouldn't both presidential candidates give the public a report on their physical condition ? It is entirely possible that Adlai is suffering from a hangnail or fallen arches, unknown to the public. Just how healthy is Adlai anyhow? I, for one, would like to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Cooper's fellow Republican, however, had a tougher hill to climb. Former U.S. Congressman Thruston Ballard Morton, 49, also a Yaleman, astonished politicos in Kentucky's normally Democratic Third District (Louisville) by winning three successive terms to the House (1947-52), but he is virtually unknown outside the district. In the backwoods mining settlements of "Bloody Harlan" County, the mountaineers did not take kindly to the "furriner" with the citified manners and precise diction. But Kentucky's strongly TVA-minded citizens nonetheless liked the way that Morton frankly tackled questions on such local boiling points as Dixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: The Jumbo Prize | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...French nature morte, by the Spaniards bodegones, which means "low-class restaurant or taproom"), the Milwaukee Art Institute and the Cincinnati Art Museum have teamed up to assemble an ambitious selection ot paintings covering 500 years of still life. Opening this week in Cincinnati, the exhibition ranges from an unknown German's Cabinet with Bottles and Books, dated 1470, down to such later-day works as Georges Braque's Soda and Stuart Davis' Eggbeater V; it includes works by the 17th century Dutch masters, France's Chardin and Spanish Painter Zurbaran. Far from being a drab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: KITCHEN TABLE ART | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...jurists, lawyers, and men of affairs were being considered by the President to fill the seat on the High Court being vacated by Sherman Minton. Among them were Thomas E. Dewey, Chief Justice Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and Herbert Brownell. But Eisenhower finally selected a relatively unknown and young (fifty years) justice from New Jersey...

Author: By Robert H. Newman, | Title: The Brennan Appointment | 10/13/1956 | See Source »

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