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These men needed a pocketful of miracles; they got a couple of lucky breaks. Already on the boards was a proposal by local and state authorities to renovate the ball park. Encouraged by that, Fowler and Larson went to the winter baseball meetings in Houston looking for a major-league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Utica: the Dogpatch of Baseball | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

The ad was a classic of the late '50s: a child runs across a suburban lawn, arms outspread, beaming broadly and shouting, "Look, Mom--no cavities!" That sales pitch, offered when fluoridated toothpastes were introduced, hardly seemed credible. Few American children, nurtured as they were (and still are) on candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Today's Dentistry: a New Drill | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

Carbo was one of the game's finest pinch hitters and one of Lee's best friends on the team. In the middle of the 1978 season when the Sox were in a right pennant race with the Yankees, Carbo was shipped to Cleveland for a $15,000 pocketful of...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: High and Way Outside | 7/20/1984 | See Source »

Ring-a-ring of roses, A pocketful of posies, Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Commenmorating a Heroic Act | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Translated into English as Time of Desecration, the book arrives like an immigrant with a pocketful of soft currency. It is difficult to imagine how an obscenity case about a piece of Italian fiction will cause a stir in the U.S., where hard-core pornography can be bought openly in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arrivederci, Roma | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

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