Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much he must depend on the work of other players." The other players, in turn, depend on Graham. During a tight game with the San Francisco Forty-Niners earlier in the season, Graham suffered a severe face gash (only his second injury in eight years of pro ball). The wound required 15 stitches, but Graham went back into the game, completed nine of ten passes, and the Browns finally won, 23-21. Next night, Graham was back on his TV show, bandaged face and all. Characteristically, he begged newsmen: "Don't represent me as a corny exhibitionist with...
There was a falling-off of books on World War II, at least of useful ones, but a few were important and and a a handful readable. Sir Winston Churchill wound up his great six-volume history of the war with Triumph and Tragedy, which carried events from the Normandy beaches to final victory, and ended with Churchill's defeat in 1945 at the hands of Labor. With New Guinea and the Marianas, Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison completed the eighth volume (six more to come) of his U.S. naval history of the war, a job second...
Just like any salesmen, TIME agents have their problems. Francis Tokar of St. Bonaventure University reports: "I had been trying to sell a TIME subscription to a certain student for weeks. I finally wound up lending him the money to buy the subscription, and he left school without returning it. At long last, however, he did send a money order to cover the old loan." At Seton Hall University, Agent Irving Blau was stumped by a fellow student who refused to subscribe because TIME hadn't mentioned the remarkable Seton Hall basketball team. "However," says Blau, "the very next...
...Angeles Paint Manufacturer Harold Chadick ("Chad") McClellan, 56, the first Pacific Coast businessman to get the job. Only six years in the N.A.M., McClellan attracted notice as the representative of a West Coast faction in an N.A.M. family argument, smoothed over the difficulty so expertly that he eventually wound up as regional vice president. ("I got acquainted with people, and the rascals put me to work...
...three straight years now the Crimson has taken second place in Eastern League swimming. For three years it has finished ahead of Army, Navy, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Columbia, and Dartmouth. And in each of the three years it wound up behind Yale...