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No amount of mismanaging could hamper Ron Fairly and Tommy Davis, who should battle each other for the batting crown some year; but until L.A. develops a star of Anron's or Mays' stature (no, Wally Moon doesn't rate), their attack is too diffuse to mean much. The L.A...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Giants Given Edge to Win National League Pennant | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

Baseball writers have offered the horrible winds of Candlestick Park as the reason that the Giants will lose ... Don't bet on it. Orlando Cepeda has been belting 400 foot shots into the wind, and Willie Mays hardly feels the draft. With Cepeda back at first Harvey Kuenin and Felipe...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Giants Given Edge to Win National League Pennant | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

Prevailing Poverty. How good are even good Negro colleges? Few can fault the quality of what are probably the top three schools. Washington, D.C.'s Howard is justifiably called "the world's greatest Negro university" (TIME, July 18, 1960). Nashville's Fisk, the South's first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Negro Colleges | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

The most conspicuous change in the Third New International Dictionary is that every definition is really new. Instead of thumbnail essays, they run to single phrases. To illustrate new shades of meaning, they include 200,000 quotations that draw on sources as diverse as Variety, Lingerie Merchandising, and TIME (probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Vox Populi, Vox Webster | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

In only his fifth major league season, Maris was already assured of making about $67,000: some $42,000 in salary and World Series bonus, another $25,000 in fees for personal appearances and "testimonials" for such assorted products as Camel cigarettes, Infra-Rub and Aqua Velva after-shave lotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Making of a Hero | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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