Word: californianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 59 ft. 4½ in. After a momentary lapse with...
...Yorker by birth and Californian by choice, Ed Rees came to TIME as an office boy at the end of 1941. He was soon off with the Eighth Air Force, dropping bombs on Peenemünde and other targets. He shrugs off his 32 missions over Germany and Occupied France, but the military did not take them so lightly-Rees was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and five Air Medals...
...squad's first game is now scheduled for Saturday, the final day of the Californian High School Band Contest. Leading Californian high school Bands will be a feature of the rugby game's half-time festivities...
...hottest American painter in Paris these days is a 32-year-old Californian named Sam Francis, a husky ex-GI., who in the past five years has caused even palette-jaded Parisians to perk up. He has won raves for shows on both banks of the Seine, and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, currently showing a Sam Francis painting among its new acquisitions, calls him "perhaps the best-known young American painter now working in Europe." Last week Sam Francis racked up another triumph. Museum Director Arnold Rudlinger of Basel's Kunsthalle, acting for a group...
...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...