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...team," there s a question last night about the ailability of right fielder Roger Maris. Maris bruised his left arm when he ashed into the fence while chasing ommy Davis' triple in the third inning Thursday's game. Should Maris not be le to play, Houk will probably start ector Lopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bouton Will Face Drysdale Third Game of Series | 10/5/1963 | See Source »

...section. The saga opens with sylvan innocence in an England that is roughshod yet full of rural graces. The only thing that troubles the towhead Wart (Arthur-to-be) is the commonly accepted notion that he is a bastardly blot on the escutcheon of a country squire named Sir Ector. whose proper son Kay is an unamiable toad. Sir Ector wants both lads to acquire a good "eddication." An old "tilting blue," he believes that "the battle of Crecy [was] won upon the playing fields of Camelot." A tutor is engaged-a dotty old geezer with a pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parfit Gentil Knyght | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

Even with such stuff to soothe him, Trujillo has found the job of a dictator wearing. Despite nonsmoking, temperance in drink and lots of expensive medical attention, he is tired. In March, he handed over the "executive power" to General Héector (El Negro) Trujillo, 42, youngest of the six Trujillo brothers. * Last week, shortly after Rafael's no-fifth-term announcement, the Dominican Party dutifully nominated Hector for President. Unless Rafael changes his mind, Hector will inevitably be elected. But Big Brother will be watching him. Sooner or later, Rafael Trujillo will probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: EI Benefactor | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...gaunt, bookish fellow named Alexander Ector Orr Munsell was presented last week with a problem calculated to curl a man's nerve ends up like watch springs: he inherited $650,000 from his mother. Under ordinary circumstances, he might well have kissed his fingers and done a buck & wing. But Alexander Ector Orr Munsell was forced to remember something: 18 years ago, finding himself with a million dollars, he had given it all away, and he had sworn he never wanted anything to do with money again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Wrestler | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Alexander Ector Orr Munsell would not say. He stayed inside his house, surveying the outer world cautiously through a peephole in his door and, presumably, wrestling mightily with temptation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Wrestler | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

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