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...freshman baseball team, seeking its eighth win of the season, will travel to Andover today to replay a contest originally scheduled for yesterday. Harvey Friedman, slated to hurl in yesterday's washout, will probably go again today. Larry McCulley will catch Friedman, and Captain Levon Kasarjian will lead the Yardlings at shortstop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Sports | 5/17/1956 | See Source »

...Which is always attached to "through express trains running on time; Mr. McGinnis never uses the commuter trains," a spokesman explained recently, denying newspaper stories that the car was on a commuter train stalled for 69 minutes by 1) a washout, 2) engine failure, and 3) bridge construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Pigs & Pigs | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...even a show that sells nothing is not a washout for Stix. Says he: "A show is a necessary part of the development of any artist. He needs to communicate." Last week Stix was developing a lot of artists: on the first day of his new show, 75 drawings were sold; by week's end only 77 were left. And to Hugh Stix's great delight, the relative unknowns were selling as well as the anonymous bignames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: One for the Show | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...French Riviera, fresh from a hard day's work shooting down 100 pigeons. Bao Dai, the puffy-faced Vietnamese Chief of State who obeys his French protectors, peremptorily summoned Diem to the Riviera, obviously intending to dismiss him. French officialdom told newsmen that Diem was a washout and should be dropped. "The sequence of [the French] reasoning seems to be thus," one Vietnamese official wrote to the New York Times. "To get rid of Premier Diem, one must sell the idea to the U.S. first . . . One must prove that Mr. Diem is inefficient. To prove that . . . one must stir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Revolt That Failed | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...decided that the New World was the future's best bet; instead, he found it was nothing but an extension of the Old, smirched with the massacres of Indians. When the Age of Reason dawned. Fosca took fresh courage, but found that Revolutionary France was just a rational washout. In the end, Fosca can't imagine why generation after generation of men and women grow up bursting with ambition to change the world and right its wrongs. Fosca thinks he knows that "nothing can be done for man." But the retort he gets from mortal men throughout seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Existentialist Methuselah | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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