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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where was Lou Little concentrating his attack against the Lord Jeffs? "They ran everywhere, inside as well as out. They were sweeping a lot." Apparently Columbia has a strong end-running attack--a fact that bodes ill for the Crimson on the basis of the weak end play against Stanford...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Injuries Bench Four Grid Starters | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

...Patel is 74 and suffering from a weak heart. Last week he flew to breezy Bombay in a specially pressurized Dakota, to rest and recuperate. No one knows when & if he will return. In New Delhi, 25 leading pandits began an eleven-day yagna (sacred ritual prayer session) for Patel's early recovery. It was a prayer echoed by many an Indian for his country's future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Uncertain Freedom | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...face, all the hopes, fears, frustrations, inhibitions and terrible yearnings of a nation . . ." Stylish first-nighters, equally moved brought back Paul Muni (who played Willy) and his cast for 15 curtain calls. Said one sequined dowager: "I don't think I understood it all, but I certainly feel weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Grand Slam | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...that what has pleased 1,350,000 U.S. and English customers will please them again, Sinclair sticks close to his well-exercised formula. He thrusts Lanny into every important event in the mid-1940s, records the portentous if often empty conversations of the powerful, and buttresses his story at weak points with solid slabs of historical summary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last of Lanny? | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...their heyday beards were valued for keeping women in their place, preventing chest colds and "clergyman's throat' for "[sucking] out the abundant and gross humors of the cheeks," for concealing weak chins, and for training, "like well-bred wall plants." Their combings made an excellent stuffing for cushions. When not being wagged, beards could be carried in a velvet bag (as was one 16th Century dandy's), or their ends were wrapped around a smart walking cane or twined in & out of the waist belt. At night, of course, the beard could serve as an extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hair Apparent | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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