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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oscar" Nominations (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Presented for the Motion Picture Academy by William Holden, Judy Holliday, Edmond O'Brien, Celeste Holm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Feb. 20, 1956 | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Early birds at the New York Athletic Club games in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week knew just the man to watch. Down there among the "whales" whirling in their 7-ft. circle and heaving the 16-lb., leather-covered shot, Air Force Lieutenant Parry O'Brien showed a style all his own. The hefty (6 ft. 3 in., 235 Ibs.) Californian turned his back to the toeboard, spun completely around before he put the shot with explosive energy. The results were astonishing: 57 ft. 11¾ in. (good enough to win right from the start), then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonderful Whale | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Happily, long years of practice have made the dedicated track fan proof against the distracting discord on the floor. Somehow he can spot his favorite in the welter of colored sweat suits. Last week Parry O'Brien was not the only record breaker he had to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonderful Whale | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...accurate, dependable, invulnerable, long-range missiles that had been so freely predicted did not appear. The late Senator Brien MacMahon, then chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, summed up the situation in his famous remark about pushbutton warfare. "All we have now," said the Senator, "are the pushbuttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Missiles Away | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...American trackmen teamed up with their New Zealand rivals in Auckland to set a spate of records. Californian Parry O'Brien put the shot 58 ft. 4 in., and heaved the discus 159 ft. 3 in., for New Zealand marks. Helped by a following wind, Texan Bobby Morrow ran off a world-record-tying loo-yd. dash (09.3 sec.). New Zealander Murray Halberg also contributed a local record with an impressive 4:02.2 mile ¶Proving just how far professional football had progressed as a crowd pleaser, President Jack Mara of the New York Giants calmly turned down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 9, 1956 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

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