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...lithe, 180-lb. six-footer whose wrists are bigger (8 in. around) than Cassius Clay's, Aaron, 31, is a superb fielder, a dangerous base runner (19 stolen bases in 22 attempts) as well as a natural hitter who says, "I just grab a bat and look for the baseball. If it's near the plate, I swing at it." Technically, he does almost everything wrong: he stands at the very back of the batter's box (where it is practically impossible to reach pitches before they break), has a hitch in his swing, hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: BASEBALL The Team That Made Leaving Milwaukee Famous | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...JONES: IT'S NOT UNUSUAL (Parrot). Now it is a Welsh miner's son, a curlyheaded six-footer with a bronze voice and a pair of leather lungs, who belts out Chuck Berry songs like Memphis Tennessee. Jones dips into folk as well (Skye Boat Song), but runs down in sentimental ballads like It's Just a Matter of Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Jun. 25, 1965 | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...Commission of Fine Arts. Then Titus was ceremoniously brought from the gallery's basement, and while flashbulbs popped and TV cameras whirred, hung before red velvet in its place of honor. Yet, for all the trouble and cost he had incurred to acquire Titus, the lean, craggy six-footer with the deepset eyes and anguished look clearly did not savor the glare of publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: The Corporate Cezanne | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...Eastern championship meet will be held. Bakkensen has the best discus throw in the East this year, and has lost just once, when, Manhattan's erratic Bob Steigerwald got off a 175 ft. throw and beat him by two feet in the Penn relays. Bakkensen, a consistent 170-footer this spring, should win Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Decimated Track Team Vies in IC4A's | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

Pardee has cleared 6-9 and should fight it out for second place with his old friend Kim Hill of Yale. First seems firmly in the grasp of Maryland's seven-footer Frank Costello, who is consistent at 6-10, but on a good day Pardee, who cleared 6-10 1/2 last summer, could challenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Decimated Track Team Vies in IC4A's | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

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