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...That was Clyde Raymond Beatty, king of the beasts, the greatest animal trainer in the world (TIME cover, March 29, 1937). "I want people to see me close-close enough to smell the cats," he would explain. "When I'm in there, I don't know if there are a hundred or a thousand in the audience. It doesn't matter. I'll give them anything; I'll give them everything." And twice a day, ten months a year for more than four decades, he did, with a mixture that was as much danger...
Writing in Nature, Physicist Clyde Cowan of Catholic University of America, along with Geophysicist Chandra Atluri and Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby of U.C.L.A., offer the most ingenious theory so far. After disposing of previous guesses (If it was a meteor, where is the crater? If it was a comet, why was it not seen approaching?), Libby & Co. suggest that what caused the big bang may well have been a hunk of antimatter that must have wandered into the solar system from some distant galaxy...
...world record with a toss of 69 ft. ¾in., Texas A. & M.'s Randy Matson, 20, threw the 16-lb. metal ball five times, each time topping 67 ft. His longest put established a fantastic new record of 70 ft. 7 in. Sighed Baylor University Coach Clyde Hart: "One day, we'll see Matson peel off his A. & M. warm up suit, and underneath he'll have on a cape and a big S on his chest. Then he'll fly away, and we'll wonder whether we really...
Nobody doubted that the vessel itself would be shipshape. It will be built, like almost all other Cunard passenger liners, on the banks of Scotland's River Clyde, in the yards of John Brown & Co. With British shipyards ailing, John Brown pared its bid almost to cost to win the largest ship order in British history. This summer the company will assign 5,500 workers to the task of putting together the 58,000-ton Queen...
...fuel. At 16, he went to work in the mines as his family's chief wage earner. When Martin left home to travel to Catoctin Mountain, his mother told him: "Don't come back, son. There's nothing for you here." Still another is Clyde Melton, 16, a Negro from New Haven, Conn., who wants to become a cook. Says he: "I need a little bit of schooling. I need a little bit of everything...