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If he still looked awkward, his huge hands dug grounders out of the dirt with flawless ease. Those long arms could whip a ball across the infield too fast for the fastest runner. His lifetime fielding average was .946. At the plate Honus was a serious, spread-legged terror. For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball's Best | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Author Keith's Philippines is still a place where buses are haunted by vengeful spirits of killed pedestrians and passengers delightedly applaud when a driver outraces a rival, where the press seriously reports the latest woman to give birth to miraculous twins, one a man-child and the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Asian Friends | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

Died. Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 87, "Father of Physical Culture," onetime publishing tycoon who bossed an empire of 13 magazines and ten newspapers (True Story, True Detective, Liberty, etc.) with a total estimated monthly circulation of 16 million; of jaundice, aggravated by a three-day fast; in Jersey City. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

Ed goes to bed late and rises late. Usually he prepares his own breakfast-an unappetizing bowl of strained oatmeal and a glass of milk which, he hopes, are good for his ulcer-and eats in the white-walled living room decorated with two portraits of his tall, attractive wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big As All Outdoors | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

He can be the bush-league outfielder catching flies on his head, or Uncle Robbie catching that grapefruit. He can be the fading shortstop who can't go to his left any more-he will do a stiff-legged dance in the direction of an invisible ball; his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Fella | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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