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High men for Minneapolis were Elgin Baylor with 28 points and Dick Garmaker who scored 24 before fouling out in the fourth period. It was the Lakers' fifth straight triumph...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Olmedo Wins in Australian Tennis; Celtics, Lakers, Nats Win in N.B.A. | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Four on One? Robertson is the best player in college basketball today. As a sophomore last season, the "Big O" beat out such stars as Seattle's Elgin Baylor and Kansas' Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain for national scoring honors, made 984 points (average: 35.14 a game), was named Player of the Year. This year he is better still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big O | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...other side of the dial was shown last week by Elgin National Watch Co., the nation's biggest fine watchmaker, which makes some 200 models in a $34.75 to $150 price range. For 1957, Elgin reported a net loss of $2,442,076 v. a $671,380 profit the year before. Sales were off 26% to $31.1 million, and President J. G. Shennan said solemnly that he could not predict "an immediate return to profitability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING & MARKETING: Cheaper the Better? | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...season's climactic basketball game was played in Louisville, Governor A. B. ("Happy") Chandler was whooping in the stands, and after Seattle's All-American Elgin Baylor had hobbled himself with four fouls, nothing could stop Kentucky from winning the N.C.A.A. basketball championship, 84-72. Said Kentucky Coach Adolph Rupp in the fanciest dribble of the tournament: "We're tickled to death tonight that The Master that points the finger of destiny pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...looked up the New Yorker and found the story. It concerned an improbable couple named Elgin and Caroline, telling how they fell in love and later indulged themselves libidinously in Adams House. The story was subtly and liberally sprinkled with naked bodies, passionate embraces and the like. Vag could not bring himself to finish it, so he looked at the ending and put the magazine down...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Notes From Underground | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

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