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Harvard's Ivy Champion hockey continues to rack up honors as mythically all-star teams are postulated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Johnston, Kinasewich Selected as All-Stars | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

...rack of guilt, in the slough of doubt, more homeless than any migratory bird, Tennessee Williams wrestles with his fears. "I pray a lot, especially when I'm scared," he says. No one who sees The Night of the Iguana will need to be told the words. They are in Nonno's poem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Angel of the Odd | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...high: last year TV Guide grossed nearly $40 million. Having at tached itself to the big tubes glowing in 47 million homes, TV Guide is a healthy-organism fattening along with its host, a reference work as handy as the phone book. Other magazines may go in the magazine rack, but the Guide stays on top of the TV set, a viewer's indispensable chart through shallow channels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tiny Prodigy | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

Barely four years ago, General Dynamics seemed the paragon of the U.S. defense business, a precocious infant that had come from nowhere to rack up earnings of $44 million on sales of $1.6 billion -figures that put it neck and neck with long-established Boeing. But by 1960, the company's once respectable profits had turned into a $27 million loss, and in 1961 the company's net losses hit $40 million in the first nine months alone. But the most staggering statistic about General Dynamics was that in its efforts to break into the commercial jet market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: General Dynamics' Ordeal | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...hunters, there are so many deer (in some areas 30 per sq. mi.) that there are roughly only three hunters for every legal buck (one with antlers at least 3 in. long). All are looking for the "big horse," a stag weighing over 200 Ibs. with a ten-point rack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Booze & Buckshot | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

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