Word: classics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national hero. Combing through a confused frenzy of speculation and conflicting rumors, TIME correspondents checked intelligence sources, foreign embassies, press and radiomonitors. Adding the bits and pieces submerged in the day-to-day reports and background events obscured in the rush of new developments, they stitched together the classic story of Byzantine intrigue that brought about the downfall of the conqueror of Berlin. See FOREIGN NEWS, How the Deed Was Done...
...funeral hymn to the fallen heroes, based on revolutionary songs of the period. The fourth, "Tocsin," rising to a crashing coda, was described in a Moscow daily as "a call for tireless struggle for the highest ideals of mankind.'' The work evidently satisfied Moscow brass as a classic example of socialist realism (although that unsocialist romantic, Tchaikovsky, had been capable of similar stuff in his heavy-ordnance 1812 Overture). Last week's audience could almost see flashes of fire and smell gun smoke as the bugles sounded, the drums beat, and the entire orchestra rose...
Time was when college football was devoted to the classic commandment of sport: play to win. From Slippery Rock State Teachers to the semipro squads that are the pride of the country's largest universities, players and coaches alike were devoted to a single statistic, the final score. Few teams made more of a business of winning than the powerful platoons of the Big Ten, and few Big Ten teams had a better reason for trying to win last week than the husky Hawkeyes of Iowa...
...hobby is looking at cardiograms of horses," said Plesch, so he sent Dr. White an electronic tracing of Stephanotis' heartbeat. The good doctor, who also takes an interest in the tickers of whales, took one look and pronounced the colt fit. Reassured, Stephanotis won last week's classic Cambridgeshire Handicap at Newmarket and earned an invitation to Laurel (Md.) for the Washington, D.C. International later this month...
...then, the classic tempest in a teapot. It might happen again; Brandeis and Northeastern have severed athletic relations because someone was blocked too hard on a kickoff. All we can hope for is that today's encounter will be played in the cleanest fashion and under the rules of sportmanship that all gentlemen recognize. If they beat us too badly though, we can always drop them and play Marlboro instead