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Word: jr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American in blue jeans and baseball cap whirled his scarlet cape in a long veronica, smoothly led the charging young practice heifer past him, its horns coming within inches of his legs. Though still a little stiff from a goring received in a fight a month ago, Baron Clements Jr., 20, of Kilgore, Texas shows signs of becoming the best U.S.-born matador in the alien art of bullfighting since the heyday of Brooklyn's Sidney Franklin 25 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Matador from Texas | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...Burly Mike Souchak, onetime Duke University end, fired a brilliant 6-under-par 66 in the first round, kept the pressure on, posted a two-stroke victory in the $46,620 Tournament of Champions at Las Vegas, Nev. Runner-up: Masters Champion Art Wall Jr., who faded on the final nine holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 4, 1959 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...businessmen, the newest problem at home and abroad is foreign competition. Inland Steel's President John F. Smith Jr. told stockholders: "A Peoria house builder can buy a keg of Belgian nails for a dollar less than from a local mill''-even after shouldering shipping and insurance costs and paying the U.S. tariff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN COMPETITION: Homemade Challenge in World Markets | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Divorced. Sammy Davis Jr., 33, supercharged Negro entertainer, cinemactor (Anna Lucasta) and Broadway star (Mr. Wonderful); by Loray White Davis, 24. nightclub singer; after 15 months of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 4, 1959 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...Marauders, by Charlton Ogburn Jr. Merrill's Marauders went through some of the most vicious infantry fighting of World War II. Veteran Ogburn recalls the savage Burmese actions with sharp description and incisive reflection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 4, 1959 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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