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...Publications, Inc., popularly (though inaccurately) known as "the Minneapolis Clearing House." Last week subscribers to its highly specialized services kept the phones jumping. The football season had opened, and soon the world would stop for the World Series. Behind the cheering squads, the home-run heroics and the whole windblown outdoor excitement of one sport ending and another beginning lurked an excitement of a very different kind. Millions of Americans bet heavily not merely on horses but on all sports. There would be hundreds of thousands of dollars wagered on Saturday's halfbacks, even more on the strong arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The World of Vigorish | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...mile cross-country course in 51 minutes, eight minutes behind the winner, Frank Hurt of Middlebury. Poindexter followed Churchill closely across the finish line in the time of 52:30. Robbins was 24th in 54:09, and Curt Beebe 27th in 55:35. Conditions were fast with windblown powder covering a packed base...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Churchill Leads Varsity Ski Team During Holiday Intercollegiate Meet | 1/5/1956 | See Source »

...city with its derelict Bowery bums, jaded burlesque queens and their wise-guy following of touts and sports, the day-to-day lives of Manhattan's anonymous masses, and everywhere-lolling on the beaches, powdering their noses in the mirror of a subway gum machine or just striding, windblown, under the "L"-the proud, full-bosomed, round-rumped, bulging-calfed girls Marsh made his own. From Marsh's mountainous pile of sketchbooks, drawings, engravings, etchings and paintings. Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art has chosen 160 examples for its current Marsh retrospective show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manhattan Portrait | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

Coach Jack Barnaby's varsity tennis team defeated a mediocre Army squad Saturday, 11 to 3, on windblown Soldiers Field courts. It was the Crimson's sixth win of the season and second straight in League competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Defeats West Pint, 11-2, In Tennis Match | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Brattlebere. Hogback--4-20, 3 windblown powder, Good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weather Favors Weekend Skiers | 1/29/1955 | See Source »

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