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Word: willful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Off the field, Sam Huff is an unassuming extravert with a reputation as a waitress kidder, a dislike for liquor (two beers make him woozy), and a quiet determination to get to bed around 10 every night. But the game has left more of a mark on him than the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Power to Spare. So is pro football. Already solidly in the black (projected profits this season for San Francisco: $500,000), the N.F.L. is eying the growing national interest in the game (CBS's pro-football TV audience: some 20 million) and planning to expand to Minneapolis-St. Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Man's Game | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Some people think less of him. Says Arnold Shaw of the music-publishing firm of E. B. Marks: "Someone like Clark is a one-man trust." Adds Marty Mills of Mills Music, Inc.: "People know that Clark will lay it on [i.e., plug a song] if he's got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Facing the Music | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Normally the cowpokes on Warner Bros.' crowded TV range pursue their separate villains, but last week they all ganged up on a common enemy-Warner Bros. Encouraged by a withering denunciation of the studio by the Screen Actors Guild, the cowpokes drew a bead on 1) highhanded Studio Boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Unhappy People--with Spurs | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Had he seen it rising above squat Moscow, Napoleon might have paused. For the 32-story Palace of Science, showpiece of Moscow State University, catches the visitor's eye* as the Eiffel Tower does in Paris. A relic of Stalin's appetite for Victorian skyscrapers, it comes off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cathedral of Know-How | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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