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...wish a few more fans and lower baskets for the offense. While we're at it, Kansas's Phog Allen should have his long-yearned-for 12-foot baskets now that he's got Wilt the Stilt. For the boxing and wrestling rooms we wish a fancy Air-Wick bottle and new punching bags. There might as well be a jump in the stadium for the ski squad two lawn courts for the tennis team, eleven full-blooded Indians for lacrosse, and a new mechanical foil for the fencing room. The soccer team doesn't appear to need anything...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/21/1955 | See Source »

...bade, because the wick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Beauty Comes Home | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...Toast to Ike. Moscow was their last stop on an eleven-country flying tour of Europe run by James L. Wick, board chairman of the Niles (Ohio) Daily Times (est. circ. 3,634), with interests in seven other small papers, and part owner of the travel bureau that arranged the trip. (Last year, on a similar junket, Wick's group could not get into Russia, but he made headlines nonetheless by cabling Stalin and asking whether the world was moving closer to war. Stalin's answer: No.) This time, already in London and homeward-bound, they suddenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Rover Boys in Moscow | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Sovietization of agriculture," they stood dazzled at equipment standard on most big U.S. dairy farms. "Milking is done by a machine " said the U.P. story, "taking the milk in an overhead glass tube to a central point . . . The only familiar note: "We had a good laugh on Jim Wick when he slipped and landed right in a mudhole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Rover Boys in Moscow | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

While the Republican Senators were working him over, Newbold, with the air of a man who was trying to make somebody else his Air-Wick, had started working over the President. As a guest on the television program Meet the Press, he coolly implied that Truman was holding out on him. He announced that he wanted any of 25,000 Government employees-to whom he has sent questionnaires-to be fired if they refused to tell all about their incomes. He added, threateningly, that he would quit if the President refused to act. He tramped on the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Neutralizer | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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