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...Texas Christian (7-1)-trailed Texas 8-0 at half time but came alive with a 22-8 victory; beaten only by Iowa, should win a berth in the Cotton Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...showing up at key games around the U.S., a whole lot of candidates could not stand the pressure, blew a good share of their hopes in a series of big upsets. Rice could not stop downtrodden (3-5) Texas A. & M., took a 28-21 licking that dimmed its Cotton Bowl hopes. Southern Methodist, another Cotton Bowl candidate, lost to anemic (2-6) Arkansas 13-6. Pittsburgh fell out of the postseason picture by losing 14-6 to a Nebraska team that had dropped five straight. Georgia Tech's prospects were punctured by Alabama 17-8. Overrated Mississippi blew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...halfback, 38 points a game for the basketball team, set a school high-jump record (6 ft. 3 in.), pitched and played first base for the baseball team. After sifting 45 scholarship offers, he chose Syracuse, majored in sociology, put on a spectacular one-man show in the 1957 Cotton Bowl by scoring three touchdowns, booting three conversions against Texas Christian in a 28-27 losing cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brown of the Browns | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...RICHARD COTTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 27, 1958 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Faced with this situation, it is a comfort to live in Massachusetts. For the Commonwealth, the home of the Blue Laws and Cotton Mather, of no baseball on Sunday mornings and no sherry under twenty-one, is already resisting. In a sharp letter to the liquor barons, the Massachusetts Beverage Control deplored the use of the "pictures and/or name of St. Nicholas--also called Santa Claus" in its advertising. Here, at least, the spirit that warmed Salem is not yet extinguished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Nothing Sacred? | 10/22/1958 | See Source »

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