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...eleven-game winning streak, they racked up the big lead that they have been hanging on to steadily. They have been equal to all their troubles. Out of long experience. Manager Walter ("Smokey") Alston knew just how to discipline Big Don Newcombe when he kicked up a fuss about pitching batting practice (TIME, May 23); Big Newk has been pitching (18 won, i lost) and hitting (.376 at week's end) with astonishing skill ever since. With Pee Wee Reese, Junior Gilliam and Carl Furillo all doing their share, there is hardly a chance that the team can pick...
...usual, most of the surface fuss was over a question that could hardly be less important: should the Forty and Eight be permitted to continue holding its convention parades separately from the rest of the Legion? But beneath this triviality there lay a no-holds-barred political struggle within the Legion. It revolved around two men: Indianapolis' Charles Ardery, full-time secretary (since 1924) of the Forty and Eight, and Chicago utility engineer James P. Ringley, a leader of the Legion's currently dominant faction, called the "Kingmakers...
...A.C.U. by offering $50,000 in prize money to contributors who solve a series of rebus puzzles with terse clues. (Example: "He was a Union general in the Civil War. He made a famous ride.") So far, despite the precautions of the A.C.U., the contest has raised more fuss than funds...
...governmental mind last fall to do this, so there was no last-minute flap north of the border as there was in the U.S. And nobody tried to hurry the production. The University of Toronto's Connaught Medical Research Laboratories (TIME, March 29, 1954) did the job without fuss and feathers. Then the federal and provincial governments jointly gave the vaccine for youngsters in the first three grades...
...Jacqueline Roque, a dark-haired, dark-eyed Antibes' woman, fortyish. self-effacing, maternal, and of course lovely to look at-Picasso has no fear of ugliness in art, but he does not appreciate it in women. For Jacqueline Roque's sake, and because he does hate fuss, Picasso passed up last week's festivities in Paris. He was busy settling into an ornate villa, La Californie, overlooking Cannes and the blue Mediterranean...