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Mico's brother, a bright one who goes to college and accepts all the bejabbers of modern science, grows up to be a dusty wielder of test tubes. His best friend, a ranting revolutionary, is knocked out of his wits by a hurling stick in a game of Irish hockey, and later kills himself. Big, slow Mico goes steady ahead, fishing the waters, eating the bread, waiting for the girl of his portion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Bog | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...tray spins like a Lazy Susan, particularly when one tries to cut "tenderized" steak (a hard enough job on the old trays), and the gravy then assails the knife-wielder and occasionally his neighbors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 3/21/1951 | See Source »

...Frankmann, Bill Raney, and Stan Sheldon all came through in foils to give the Varsity an 8-1 advantage. In the epee event, Giles Constable and Chip Arp both took two matches, while John Ager won all three. Every saber-wielder lost at least once to give the fencers a slim 5 to 4 advantage over the Lions in that event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Fencers Slice Lions, 20-7 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...yesterday afternoon the most interest had been manifested in the open singles tournament where 19 competitors have been lined up. Only one man had pessimistically classed himself as a novice racquet wielder for the closed tourney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Slates Show Uneven Registrations | 8/5/1947 | See Source »

...Government securities regulations and 2) his way around Washington. Francis Truslow knows both. A Yale graduate who later studied law at Harvard, Truslow worked for two Wall Street legal firms, helped develop regulations under the Securities Exchange Act, headed the Government's Rubber Development Corp. No new-broom wielder, Truslow plans "to do a great deal of listening . . . before indulging in any perceptible amount of talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No. 2 for the Curb | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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