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But against complacent Wisconsin, Quarterback Schloredt was a cocky signal caller who knew that Schloredt himself was Washington's best showdown runner. Early in the first quarter, he twice gambled and twice won by running himself on fourth down and short yardage to go, accounted for 37 yds. in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bowls | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

Jolly's Progress (by Lonnie Coleman) concerns a wild, scared, quick-witted young Alabama Negro housemaid who, having been seduced by her employer and sent packing by his wife, finds sanctuary with an enlightened writer. While the writer is playing Professor Higgins to the girl's Liza, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

In a friendly farewell toast to his group's Cambridge hosts on Tuesday night, Vadim Loginov, the quick-witted leader of the delegation, said, among other things, that while the Soviets were in town they "started no arguments."

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman g, | Title: Soviets in Cambridge | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Quick-witted and active, the Etruscans loved motion in their art, depicted goats bounding, dancers leaping, warriors with lances poised. Mortuary figures gesture and smile; even the sticklike figures (see opposite), which ancient Romans hoarded by the thousands, stride and posture in space like the armature-thin figures of present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Treasures of Etruria | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Bastard Daughter. Though the Nationalist soldiers had fled, the Communists were not left without opponents. Let the Reds do their damnedest, boasted cocky Shanghailanders, we will change them before they change us. Big, brawling and unpredictable, the "bastard daughter of the West and China," proud of its reputation as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The Long Decade | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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