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...wet and furious Briton presently learned that the girls had formally asked his permission to douse him, and that this was part of a hallowed Burmese spring custom. Last week, Burma was still locked in civil war with the fierce Karens and other insurgents, but the Burmese found time to devote themselves to their own ancient rites. Happy as New Orleans folk at Mardi Gras, they went about laughing and dousing each other with water. It was the Thingyan or Water Festival, the Burmese New Year celebration occasioned by the annual visit of the great god Thi-gya-min (King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: We Laugh, We Laugh | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Busch didn't know at the time that the lens had shattered. "Tell me if it's broken, Jimmy," he keep saying as trainer Jimmy Cox mopped the eye with wet towels. He found out 20 minutes later on the emergency operation table at Massachusetts General Eye and Ear Infirmary. It took surgeons two hours to pick particles of plastic out of Busch's left eye--and save his sight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contact Lens Accident May End in Probe | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

...Wet Nurse. That would be nothing new for John Franklin Sain Jr. For three years running he has won 20 or more. If he repeats this season, Sain will become the first National League pitcher to string four 20-game seasons together since the great Carl Hubbell. Others who turned the trick: Dizzy Dean, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Christy Mathewson, Joe Mc-Ginnity and Mordecai ("Three-Fingered") Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jug-Handle Johnny | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Pitcher Sain is a phlegmatic, self-disciplined ballplayer who needs no prodding or wet-nursing. He doesn't talk much; his wife declares she didn't know he was a baseball player until she was married to him. But there is nothing bashful about him when it comes to asking for more money-this season the Braves will pay him close to $40,000, one of the highest salaries in the National League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jug-Handle Johnny | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...over Army might well be termed an upset, for the Crimson was by far the greener team. Wet outdoor, courts forced play onto the hockey rink's cement courts, and after a bad start the Crimson rallied to win most of the late sets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Squad Achieves 1-1-1 Tour Record | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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