Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never Enough. "Baseball," says Stan, "is a game you can play as long as you still have two things: desire and the ability to concentrate. Concentration comes hardest of all. The effect on the nervous system is cumulative. At the end of every game I'm beat...
Archie cannot even think of the names of all the men he still has plans to fight. "I got to leave for Vancouver in the morning to get ready for whatsisname-that German," he announced. "I'm taking off weight so I can fight either Patterson for the heavyweight championship or Ray Robinson for my title. I'll get that knockout record soon. And I'm going to run it up so high that no one will ever beat...
...desegregation pieces). Meticulous and unhurried, he often writes first drafts 1,000 pages long, delights in the freedom of freelancing that has driven many another writer back to the certainty of the payroll. Says he: "I resist the bigness that's coming to the magazine field. I'm a 19th century man." In 1952 Democrat Martin wrote a campaign biography of Adlai Stevenson; in 1956 he was a Stevenson staff writer...
March. The daughter of a Columbia physics professor, Elfrida forthrightly explains her agonized look in the isolation booth: "I've always had this kind of face, frowning and squinting. I'm not hamming...
...Small cars are just a phase," says Atlanta Medical Technician Jewell Mitchell, who drives a well-cared-for 1956 Cadillac. "They're not comfortable, and I'm afraid I'll wind up under somebody's front bumper. Why, the other day I saw a small foreign car with a sign saying: 'Don't run over me. I squash bugs...