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...opposed Pat. Therefore, taking second things first, Brown recently summoned to his office G.O.P. Assembly Leaders Charles J. Conrad and Don Mulford, began lecturing them about legislative responsibility. Mulford reminded Brown that "many of your problems are generated by your own party." Pat knew it all too well. His fist crashed on his desk as he blurted: "Those bastards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Just a Term of Endearment | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...does the same thing and is shot for brigandage. Swiss Cheese is "The Honest Son," faithfully concealing a military payroll box after the enemy overruns his outfit. While Mother Courage haggles over the bribe price for his pardon, he is shot. At this blow, Mother Courage gives a fist-stifled yowl of animal grief and the playgoer grudgingly begins to pity her fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Intellectual Firestorm | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

Even after he won the featherweight championship of the world from Nigeria's Hogan Bassey in 1959, diminutive (5 ft. 3 in., 126 lbs.) Davey Moore liked most to boast of his boyhood reputation as the best fist-foot-knee-and-thumb fighter ever produced by Kiefer Junior High School in Springfield. Ohio. Son of a Negro clergyman, Moore was a professional of sorts by the time he was seven, fighting in impromptu preliminaries in Springfield's Memorial Hall and scrambling for coins tossed into the ring. Officially turning pro in 1953, he seemed only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: End of the Street | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...sideline at the Chicago Daily News Relays, trim, balding Track Coach Mihaly Igloi stood with a slip of paper clenched tightly in his fist. Scrawled on the paper was a series of digits: 1:02, 2:04, 3:09, 4:14, 5:19, 6:24, 7:29, 8:31. These were the times at which jaunty Jim Beatty, 28, the best U.S. distance runner and holder of the world indoor record for the mile, was to complete each segment of a precisely planned assault on the indoor two-mile record (8 min. 34.4 sec.) held by New Zealand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: According to Plan | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

Harvard fought its way to the top of the hockey world in a sudden-death contest of fist fights, rule books, and line juggling at Boston Arena Saturday night. Trailing by two goals for the second night in a row, the Crimson roared back on Gene Kinasewich's three goals to beat the Boston College Eagles 4-3 and take the E.C.A.C. tournament championship...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Harvard Beats B.C. in Overtime to Win Hockey Crown | 3/11/1963 | See Source »

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