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...while they talked like bickering schoolboys, the Dodgers played like pros from the first game. Even as they finally lost one last week, they were so hot that the Giants who beat them (5-4) needed a couple of Willie Mays's classiest catches and a couple of Umpire Babe Pinelli's doubtful decisions to cool them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Record Makers | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

Scores of musical contests (set up by foundations, wealthy individuals, schools) offer prizes that include cash fees, scholarships, performances, recordings, or expenses for study abroad. One of the classiest contenders in this musical prize ring is Ramiro Cortés. 21. Born in Dallas of Mexican parents, he took up music seriously when the conductor of his high-school choir took an interest in his compositions. His first prize was a Charles Ives scholarship to the Indian Hill Music Workshop, at Stockbridge, Mass., three summers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In the Prize Ring | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...Crimson tied four ways with Cornell, Rutgers, and Yale, each college earning three points. Pittsburgh, one of the classiest teams in the country, took tournament honors with 37 points. Penn State was second with 25 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Place 8th in Easterns; Culbert Wins 4th | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...into the pattern which Chicagoans expect of their police captains-a rich man's life on a copper's pay. He made a fetish of wearing a hat and, as his hair began to disappear in later years, he even kept one on while eating in the classiest restaurants. "I'd rather be caught dead than without a hat," Drury often explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I'm Awfully Hot | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Hypnotic Suggestion. Nobody could believe that Boston, man-for-man the classiest club in baseball (except for pitching), was as bad as it seemed. The Red Sox sluggers, Ted Williams and Vern Stephens, were leading the league in home runs and runs-batted-in. The whole club was hustling, playing heads-up ball, and yet they were 9½ games behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Halfway & Hot | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

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