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After the war Kennedy went to work for his home-town paper, the Worcester, Mass. Telegram and Evening Gazette, and then joined the New York Herald Tribune as a sports writer. Says he: "My beat was so wide that I soon' became known as the decathlon man." Among his many titles: ski editor. That title and the experience came in handy when TIME'S editors picked the cover subject for the issue of Jan. 21, 1952. The subject: Andrea Mead Lawrence, a swivel-hipped girl of grace and speed, captain of the U.S. women's Olympic...
Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa 46 years ago, Nathan Pusey (rhymes with newsy) went to Harvard after graduating from his home-town high school. At college, he became fascinated by ancient history, won a fellowship to study in Greece, wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Athenian law. Since then he has followed a scholar's career: at Lawrence, Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., Wesleyan University, and finally back to Lawrence as president...
Stalin and Lavrenty Beria. Last week Police Chief Beria, the home-town boy, was back in Tiflis (pop. 520,000), capital of Georgia, to undo a purge that rivaled the bizarre fantasy of the Soviet doctors...
Golfers in Beaumont, Texas were not surprised last week when home-town girl Babe Didrikson Zaharias, 39, won the Babe Zaharias Open, the local tournament named in her honor. The greatest woman athlete of the half century, Babe was an all-America basketball player, star of the 1932 Olympics (javelin, 80-meter hurdles, high jump), winner of all amateur golf titles and queen of the lady professionals. After the Beaumont tournament, Babe entered a hospital for a checkup, and doctors ordered her prepared for surgery. Medical diagnosis: a rectal malignancy. Athletic prognosis: the end of a fabulous career...
...murals in oil-on familiar scenes from the life of Christ-took most of the next year to paint. After the bishop's blessing last week, all Batatais flocked to the church to admire the results. Portinari glowed with pleasure at his home-town triumph, and the bishop announced with pardonable satisfaction that "the master of Batatais has gloriously superseded the artist of Pampulha...