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Detroit has had its eye on stocky (5 ft. 11 in., 195 Ibs.), Winnipeg-born Terry Sawchuk ever since he was a 17-year-old kid in the Red Wing farm system with the Galt Amateurs and Windsor Spitfires. In 1947, he graduated to Omaha of the U.S. League and promptly won rookie-of-the-year honors. The next year, he repeated the award with Indianapolis of the American League. This year, cheering Detroit fans are sure that he is due for a repeat performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Armor-Plated Rookie | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

University meteorologist Wallace E. Howell '36 agreed that there may be danger in man's attempts to control the weather, but not necessarily. The recent floods in Winnipeg and the Mississippi Valley were mentioned as instances where man's rainmaking attempts may have backfired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rainmaker Howell Advises Federal Control of Clouds | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

University meteorologist Wallace E. Howell '36 agreed that there may be danger in man's attempts to control the weather, but not necessarily. The recent floods in Winnipeg and the Mississippi Valley were mentioned as instances where man's rainmaking attempts may have backfired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rainmaker Howell Advises Federal Control of Clouds | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

...While eating lunch on Manitoba's Brereton Lake, Jim Turner of Winnipeg let an orange slip overboard. Before he could recover it the fruit disappeared. A few minutes later, Turner heard a violent threshing in the reeds near shore, rowed over and gaffed a northern pike that was slowly choking to death with an orange stuck in its throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Summer's Tales | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...Quebec. 2. Toronto. 3. Windsor. 4. Seattle. 5. Winnipeg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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