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This spring, Willie was having trouble breathing, so the Tigers ordered surgery to remove polyps from his nasal passage. Willie's nose has been bleeding off and on ever since. But last week he was batting .379-the second highest average in the American League-and 18 of his 36 hits have gone for extra bases. Tiger teammates now chant, "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, blast off!" every time he comes to bat, and Horton has responded by clouting nine home runs-seven of them tape-measure blasts that traveled at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Year of the Rookie | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...Lopez, 21, is the ace of the Angels' mound staff with six victories, only three defeats, and Third Baseman Paul Schaal, 22, has cracked eight homers. At Kansas City, Manager Haywood Sullivan, a rookie himself, is frankly ecstatic over his prize find: Catcher Rene Lachemann. A one time bat boy for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Righthander Lachemann, 20, has so far played almost exclusively against lefthanded pitchers, but he owns the highest batting average on the Athletics (.400), has hit two homers, driven in five runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Year of the Rookie | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...addition to the Porcellian there are ten other social clubs at Harvard--known as "final clubs" because of their mutually exclusive membership regulations. Listed more or less in declining order of prestige, they are the A.D., Fly, Spee, Delphic. Owl, Phoenix-S.K., D.U., Fox, Iroquois and Bat...

Author: By Herbert H. Denton jr., | Title: Behind the Velvet Curtain | 5/25/1965 | See Source »

...looked like the Fourth of July." Five Communists slipped through the perimeter beyond the U.S. compound, but four were gunned down. One managed to reach the mess hall and flip in a hand grenade. Special Forces Sergeant Horace Young, 34, who was already wounded in the leg, tried to bat the grenade away with his rifle butt. It exploded, tearing his arm to ribbons. Streaming blood, he staggered into the storeroom with the only weapon left to him: his Special Forces knife. There he found the Viet Cong grenadier, stabbed him and died. When Young's body was found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Forecast: Showers & a Showdown | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...Crimson came to bat in the bottom of the ninth with the score tied, 9-9. Miller walked, McLandish bunted him to second and then Bilodeau came through with his line single. r h o Tufts 1 1 0 4 0 3 0 0 0-9 8 6 Harvard...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Batmen Top Tufts, 10-9 In a Comedy of Errors | 5/13/1965 | See Source »

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