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This is the success story of the onetime yakherder who, with New Zealander Edmund Hillary, walked to greater heights than any man before. Tenzing had won the chance to climb Everest by being the gamest and surest of the bellows-chested Sherpa tribesmen who lugged packs for sahibs scrambling up Himalayan peaks. But people were not sure of his nationality, or even how to spell his name. Today, this Nepal-born mountaineer is a sort of Asian Lindbergh, hailed by millions in the East as a heroic symbol of their true capabilities, and worshiped by many as the Lord Buddha...
...McCarthy was the gamest of the bunch...
...hoped that from now on we will see more space in TIME . . . devoted to these, the gamest of racing horses...
Their eyes like marbles, their legs like glass, the gamest CRIMSON nine of them all fought back from certain defeat today under a lemon yellow sun, to win an embattled 23-2 decision from a gloriously fighting Lampoon team, stirred to unrivalled heights by the pre-game banning of their great little leader, Lionel (the Toy) Train...
...even the gamest team can be ground down, and as the Blue backfield promenaded all over the field Saturday, many were the grumbles from deep inside the raccoon coats. This was Yale, and early-season wins over provincial seminaries were merely so many statistics cluttering up the record. In other years, this unyielding Sophomorism would have been as much a part of the proceedings as Handsome Dan. But this year it must not be allowed to cloud the fact that a green team, playing together for the first time, rose from the nether corners of the Ivy League doormat, where...