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...Outfielder Frank Robinson of the Cincinnati Reds, the 1961 season began with a misfire; last week it ended with a bang. In February, Robinson nearly wrecked his baseball career when he pulled a gun during a fracas in a Cincinnati restaurant. Faced with up to three years in prison, Robinson pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon, got off with a reprimand and a $250 fine. He arrived at spring training to confront fuming Manager Fred Hutchinson. Said Hutchinson: "That was a stupid thing to do." "It was," agreed Robby. "But sometimes a man learns from his stupidities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Most Valuable | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...hitting at a furious clip, ranked among National League leaders in home runs and runs batted in for most of the season. Robinson slumped badly at the plate in the final weeks (World Series batting average: .200), but he still wound up hitting .323, and his timely slugging helped Cincinnati win its first pennant in 21 years. Last week, polling 15 out of 16 votes, he won the National League's Most Valuable Player award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Most Valuable | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

PETER H. NASH Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 17, 1961 | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati glow the red lights of Newport, Ky. (pop. 30,000), a venerable sin center and hardly a place where a reformer is likely to succeed. But last week a reformer was elected sheriff of Campbell County, which includes Newport. He is George Ratterman. 35, former Notre Dame and Cleveland Browns quarterback, now a television commentator for American Football League games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Reform Over Newport | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Success in Measles. An ever more insistent backer of live-virus vaccines, Enders was a bit dismayed that the U.S. took up killed-virus polio vaccine with such zest. He experimented for a while attenuating poliovirus, sent a sample to the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Sabin (who went on to make workable live-virus polio vaccines), then turned back to basic research. In 1954 another of his research fellows, Thomas Peebles, fulfilled Enders' longstanding dream of growing measles virus (obtained from a prep school student named David Edmonston) in tissue culture. This time, aiming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Ultimate Parasite | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

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