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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Play Tough. The Knicks are probably the best-balanced team ever to take the court, but Reed is the consistent leader. The immense (6 ft. 10 in., 240 Ibs.) pivot man tops the team in scoring (24.3 points per game) and rebounds (312), and is the key man in a defense that has allowed the opposition an average of only 101.1 points per game (the Knicks are averaging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Knickerbocker Holiday | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...thinks I should do. I don't always listen, but I have to admit that he's often right." Holzman probably listens more carefully than he cares to concede. With Russell in retirement and Chamberlain sidelined for the season with a leg injury, Reed is the best all-around center in basketball. Says Teammate Cazzie Russell: "Willis is a hell of a competitor, even in practice. He makes us play tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Knickerbocker Holiday | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...squat, muscular ball carrier atop the Heisman Trophy conveys the very essence of the purposeful, straight-ahead backfield powerhouse. As a rule, however, the award that designates the country's best college football player goes to a man of flashier stripe-the fancy-Dan quarterback, the breakaway halfback. Not this year. In Tailback Steve Owens of Oklahoma, the Heisman electors tapped a man little given to subtlety afield. "Oh, he can fake people," says one of his coaches, "but more often he just splatters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Booming Sooner | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...Laugh-In once the old gang is gone? Newcomers are already being broken in, including a dumb redhead named Pamela Rodgers and an energetic Negro named Teresa Graves. And there's always Rowan and Martin (remember them?). But the magic of their show has always been fragile at best. The old legerdemain may not be as compelling when it falls into new hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Laugh-In Dropouts | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...folio. Maecenas Press-Random House. $375. Questioned about his stature as a painter, Salvador Dali once remarked, "I consider myself a very mediocre painter [but] I'm a better painter than my contemporaries." John Tenniel isn't a contemporary, but the original illustrator of Alice still seems best. Although Dali's Mock Turtle is stupendous, most of the twelve lavish color illustrations and one original color etching are more evocative of Dali than Alice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Rich Christmas Sampling | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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