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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tackle: Dan Lanphear, 21, Wisconsin; 6 ft. 2 in., 222 lbs. Major: economics. "In the Ohio State game, he hit a couple of guys so hard they had to be helped off the field. Could be a great defensive end for the pros."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Quarterback: Don Meredith (TIME, Nov. 2), 21, Southern Methodist; 6 ft. 3 in., 195 lbs. Major: business administration. In his three-year career, Meredith completed 61% of his passes, hit for 25 touchdowns. "One of the greatest players to come out of the Southwest since Sammy Baugh. Can throw off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Heading back to his pits, Staudacher sighted a photographer on shore, decided exuberantly to give him a good shot at the boat's bellowing speed. He opened up his J35 engine, the same model that drives the Air Force's F89 fighter, and Tempo-Alcoa zoomed up to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flight over Pelican Point | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Midway in the television show, Moderator Susskind turned to Fred Cook with a question that he had been primed by a Nation pressagent to ask: "Did you in your research [on the 1956 slum-clearance series] ever encounter a lack of cooperation, or bribes?" Yes indeed, said Cook. Thereupon he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nothing Halts Him | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

No sooner had Gleason's confession been made public than the World-Telegram fired him. As for Colleague Cook, he had declared on the television show that he had reported the bribery attempt to his World-Telegram superiors. Later, he toned down that flat statement, merely claimed that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nothing Halts Him | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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