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Short (5 ft. 8 in.) and bowlegged. Rod Laver is not in the same bracket with Don Budge. The son of a Queensland sheepherder, he is temperamental, easily thrown off stride by the bad breaks of a match. He lacks the cannonlike power of a Hoad or the dexterity of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spinning for a Slam | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

Most of the Latins have the easy grace of natural ballplayers. Not Cepeda. A childhood sickness left him with a malformed right leg that later required surgery. He still limps when he walks, and his feet are pancake-flat. Back home in Puerto Rico no one thought he would be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bateador of the Giants | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

Paul was about 38 then. According to a 2nd century work called The Acts of Paul and Thecla, he was "a sturdy little balding, bowlegged man, with meeting eyebrows and a somewhat hooked nose; full of grace; for sometimes he appeared like a man and sometimes he had the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: More Than Conquerors | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

Finally a bowlegged halfback in a white and gold L.S.U. jersey plucked a bouncing punt out of the air on his 11, and All-America Billy Cannon set out for glory. He shrugged off one red-jerseyed tackier, ran right over a second. At midfield, Cannon surprised Mississippi's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Animal | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Rodin could not have done it better. The bowlegged old man brooded in the grand manner, one foot up on the top step of the dugout, an elbow on a knee, a hand held up to shade the faded blue eyes peering from a wrinkled mask of despair. "Something is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Descent from Olympus | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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