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...pitches in a row, broken one hitter's arm, torn the lobe off another's ear, and sent an unsuspecting umpire to the hospital with a stray fastball that popped him flush on the mask, knocked him 18 ft., chest pad over whisk broom. At Aberdeen, S. Dak., in 1958, Dalkowski pitched a one-hitter and lost, 9 to 8. Against Reno's Silver Sox this summer, he whiffed 19, still lost...
Married. Quentin Northrop Burdick, 52, North Dakota's first Democratic Congressman, recent winner of the state's special U.S. senatorial election (TIME, July 11); and Jocelyn Birch Peterson, 38, a Republican; both for the second time; in Fargo, N. Dak...
...Louis, Vice President Richard Nixon flashed a preview of the intensive, fast-paced campaign he plans to undertake in mid-September. It was a strenuous sample: 18 speeches in six cities, mercilessly crowded schedules, jostling crowds, exploding flashbulbs, endless lines of hands to be shaken. In Minot, N, Dak., trapped on an auditorium stage, he even bowed gracefully to that inescapable insigne of presidential candidates, an Indian war bonnet. Seasoned Campaigner Nixon liked what he heard and saw. The crowds were bigger and more enthusiastic than he expected, bolstering his hopes for carrying Texas in November (against any Democrat except...
Reciprocal Agreement. In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., the post office received a letter addressed "To a Nice Boy," with the message: "Dear Boy: I will correspond with you. I am a girl. I am 14 years. I live in Holland on an island in the North Sea. I hope...
Early Life. Born May 27, 1911, in an apartment over his family's drugstore in Wallace, S. Dak., the second of four children, he inherited his name and his politics from his pharmacist father, who was persuaded into the Democratic Party after he heard William Jennings Bryan speak. As a prizewinning debater and bright student in high school and college (University of Minnesota '39), he acquired a volubility and an oratorical flourish that have stuck with him through the years. A victim of the Depression (he was forced to quit college for six years when his family...