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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lyman suffered in silence the nickname "Rocko." (WELCOME HOME, ROCKO, read 1945 Honesdale banners.) Growing up, Lem learned golf, polished it into his present long-drive, low-80s game (one back-home partner on Honesdale's nine-hole course: Art Wall, 1959 Masters champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Forces on the Ground | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...varsity baseball team has a good chance to bounce back from its 6-0 loss Wednesday to Brown, when it takes on a relatively weak Holy Cross nine this afternoon at Soldiers Field. A win today will put the team on the winning side of the record book for tomorrow's game here with Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine to Face Crusaders In Try for Seventh Win | 5/8/1959 | See Source »

...American League, the Cleveland Indians got good pitching and devastating hitting-they had been expected to have neither-and led the league after winning nine of their first ten games. Much of the batting support came from a pair of light-hitting journeymen infielders who had been considered all but washed up. Third Baseman Woody Held, 27, a .204 hitter with only seven home runs last year, hit five homers, knocked in ten runs in his first eight games. Shortstop George Strickland, 33, who actually retired in disgust a year ago and returned only at the urging of Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spring Heroes | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...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 »

...lunch to an apple or skip it altogether, but he still finds time to fly kites with his four children ("a little high-altitude research," he calls it), likes to work in his basement workshop. His most recent achievement: a model covered wagon, big enough to hold his nine-year-old daughter and friends. For the brilliant assistants and students who have gathered around him, he has full appreciation. "I am a sort of scoutmaster around here," he says mildly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reach into Space | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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