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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state and county fairs years ago, the crowning events for U.S. farmers were such contests as corn picking and husking and a tug of war between horses. A fast-working champion could harvest corn at the rate of 100 bu. a day. But today's farmer has little interest in such events; with a mechanical corn picker, he thinks nothing of picking and husking 1,500 bu of corn a day. For machine-age farmers a big event at fairs is the tractor rodeo," in which farmers compete at starting tractors attaching implements, plowing the straightest, fastest furrows. Merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AUTOMATION ON THE FARM | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

Slimmed down from his normal bulk to a trim 175, Light-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Archie Moore was a good big man, able but ancient (38). Up from 160 Ibs., to an overblown 170, Middleweight Champion Carl ("Bobo") Olson, 26, was a good little man, ambitious but amenable. One steamy evening last week, 27,431 fans plunked down $206,784 at New York's Polo Grounds to learn whether Challenger Olson, no knockout specialist, could outlast 2-to-1 Favorite Moore. After 19 hectic years in the ring, 143 professional bouts, Moore had already designated (in paid newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Archie's Rocky Road | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...Wimbledon's courts were strewn with upsets in the 69th All-England tennis championships. Earliest high-seeded casualties: U.S. Davis Cup Player Vic Seixas, blasted out in the second round by U.S. Hard Court Champion Gil Shea ''who was ousted two rounds later by Italy's up-and-coming Star Nick Pietrangeli); U.S. Davis Cupper Ham Richardson, defeated in the first round by Sweden's Sven Davidson. At week's end, midway in the tournament, the quarterfinals roster stood: the U.S.'s top-seeded Tony Trabert, Australia's maturing (20) Boy Wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jul. 4, 1955 | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...precision instrument, Walter Schumann's choral group managed to sound now like an entire circus, again like the string section of a symphony orchestra. Harry Belafonte, singing blues, calypso and spirituals, turned out to be a topnotch TV personality. Best of all were witty Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, who can make their sophisticated routines look joyously impromptu. All in all, 3 for Tonight proved that skill and imagination can be more fun than a lot of expensive scenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...show, Turn to the Right, followed it with Light-nin', which set a new long-run record of 1,291 performances. In the next 36 years. Golden brought more than 100 shows to Broadway (including Susan and God, The Male Animal, Claudia, Counsellor-at-Law), became famous as the champion of "clean, humorous American plays" for the entire family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

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