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Orlando Cepeda could have a sophomore slump, but the chances are he will turn into the loop's top first baseman. Daryl Spencer and Jim Davenport are both superlative fielders, but both hit .256 last year. The success of the infield will depend on the performance of Andre Rodgers at shortstop, a reformed cricket player who tore the PCL apart last year with a .354 average...

Author: By Tampa JIM Benkard, | Title: National League: Pittsburgh Picked To End Long Era of Dismal Finishes | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...Faculty last year omitted any such proposals from its vote on the CEP plan, a move of which Leighton said, "one cannot complain . . . but one may regret it. The CEP report, while offering loop-holes for interested Juniors who have failed their Honors qualifying tests, does not offer a "hopeful" indication that many will take advantage of this. "No provision is made for non-Honors Seniors," he reiterated...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Leighton Asks Progress On Non-Honors Tutorial | 1/28/1959 | See Source »

...with the slick skill of a shell-game operator. His dribble is a rapid rat-a-tattoo inches off the floor. Smoothly, surely, Baylor prowls through the elbowing surge under the hoop to nail a Laker with a pinpoint pass, or rises from the floor as though projected to loop a lazy shot through the basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Young Pro | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...sales last week finished a surprising 4% ahead of record 1957. In Chicago subzero weather held December sales well below last year almost up to the final week. Then the weather and the customers' sales resistance thawed out together. Vice President J. Chalmers O'Brien of the Loop's 104-year-old Carson Pirie Scott reported that the Monday before Christmas, sales were the highest for any shopping day ever, and "by quite a margin." Near the North Shore, the Old Orchard shopping center said that its tenant Marshall Field "had terrific 1957 figures to beat this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Fast Finish | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...within the city, many of them less than a mile apart. Heineman closed 28 stations within Chicago and the close-in suburbs. While the line thus lost 3,000 close-in passengers, it guaranteed better service to its 43,000 far-out commuters, cut their riding time to the Loop by one to 19 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: BEN HEINEMAN | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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