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...stretching of magnetic-field lines is also believed to be responsible for the spots' appearing progressively closer to the solar equator and the switch of magnetic polarities after each cycle. But ingenious as it seems, the dynamo model of the sun may need some serious revision. Astronomer Richard Altrock, at Sacramento Peak, has observed a brightening of the sun's corona that begins near the poles -- just when the first sunspots of a cycle break out around 35 degrees latitude -- then slowly progresses toward the equator. The brightening, he suspects, marks the beginning of still another cycle, long before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fury on The Sun | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...Which is highly developed, but far short of the form once shown by Diamond Comedian Nick Altrock. In a single game (1901), Southpaw Altrock walked eight batters, picked seven of them off first base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Southpaw | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...Portland, Ore. In 1906, Fielder (his real name) Jones managed Chicago's "hitless wonders" White Sox team (batting average: .229), won a World Series from the Chicago Cubs whose infield included Tinker and Evers and Chance. Famed as an umpire baiter, he taught players such as Nick Altrock. Ed Walsh, Yip Owens, to steal bases, sacrifice. ¶Died. Horace Atlee Mann. 65, lawyer, politician; of heart disease; in Nashville, Tenn. Horace Mann was credited in 1928 with winning many a southern vote for Herbert Hoover, distributing anti-Catholic propaganda against Candidate Alfred E. Smith. When Herbert Hoover refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 26, 1934 | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

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