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...Cooperstown, N.Y., Dizzy Dean, flamboyant fogball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals in the '305, joined Al Simmons, longtime (1924-44) batting great (lifetime average: .334) for ceremonies enshrining them in baseball's Hall of Fame. Dean, "an old Arkansas cotton picker" who turned into a grammar-mangling sports announcer after racking up 150 major league victories, 83 defeats, called it the "greatest honor" of his life. "I want to thank the good Lord," he drawled, "for giving me a good right arm, a strong back and a weak mind...
TIME'S four-page spread [July 6] on the Cooperstown collection of American Folk Art was an especially beautiful...
...visit battlefields and reread American history ("Apparently you can read about the Revolution for the rest of your life"). TIME Cartographer Bob Chapin started his research for the two color maps of Revolutionary War battlefields, and a four-page layout was planned on early American art in the Cooperstown museum...
...Baseball Writers' Association of America last week picked two more mortals (No. 63 & No. 64) for immortality in Baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y. The men and their claims to fame...
...Union's main dining hall. On them are engraved the names of Charles Sumner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others. These are the charter members of a now abandoned project, the Harvard Hall of Fame. The Union Dining Hall, it seems, was to become a sort of collegiate Cooperstown, with the name of one famous graduate on every panel. The announcement of the plan was accompanied by a great hue, and pressure by groups of alumni desiring impannelment of their special hero. But the high cost of matching the first elaborate carvings soon stopped the Hall of Fame idea altogether...