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...Watched its sales whizz past the 150,000 mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Happened in Flatbush | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...bombs, but you'd rather do anything than give those gunners a straight shot at you. You level off and hang on. Tracer bullets stream up past the nose. You can see them coming a long way off and they come so slow, so leisurely till suddenly they whizz by like miniature meteors. The light on the instrument panel blinks rapidly as the bombs are released and you are free to begin dodging again. You have all the speed you can get and the controls are like iron. What was seconds seems hours before you are clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1943 | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Last week Canadians were reminded that even ah Ace can be trumped. Starting out like a whizz-ten lengths in front at three furlongs, 20 in front at the halfway mark-the colt that had wiped out all bets for the Derby fizzled on the last turn. He finished last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ace Trumped | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...average ballplayer, Rizzuto does everything with a pinch of snuff. He leaps for balls, slides for bases, scoots around like a catnipped rabbit. Last year he led the American Association in assists, putouts, stolen bases. As if that were not enough for a five-foot-fiver, Rizz the Whizz batted .347, an average good enough to lead the league until the season's final fortnight. For these accomplishments Scooter Rizzuto was voted the Most Valuable Player in all 43 minor leagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scooter Spared | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Bears had a great team, all right. They were big and fast - and from their T formation those 250-lb. tanks masquerading in football pants could whizz along like an armored column. But 8-to-5 favorites? Nuts! Washington had His Excellency Slingin' Sammy Baugh, "the best football pitcher in the world." The Redskins also had three of pro football's best pass receivers. Only two clubs had succeeded in stopping Washington's air attack all season. And the big, bad Bears were not one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Washington Massacre | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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