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Rich Winkler (Yale), fullback; Crouthamel (Dartmouth), and Hugh Scott (Princeton), halfbacks; Charlie Ravenel (Harvard), quarterback; Ed Kosteinik (Princeton), and John Sadusky (Cornell), ends; Tom Budrewicz (Brown), and Eric Nelson (Harvard), tackles; Raleigh Davenport (Yale), and Warren Sundstrom (Cornell), guards; and Ron Champion (Penn), center...

Author: By T.m. Rothencott, | Title: CRIMSON All-Ivy Eleven Resolves Nascent Disputes | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

Gazing into his crystal ball in Raleigh, N.C., New York's ex-Democratic Governor W. Averell Harriman, 67, no longer a presidential candidate, predicted with no ifs or buts that Vice President Richard Nixon will be next year's Republican nominee: "He's going to get nominated, because he expresses the Republican philosophy." In definition of that philosophy, Multimillionaire Harriman cordially damned the G.O.P. Administration's "ruling class of big businessmen," added that its political ascendancy has hurt the U.S. at home and abroad, because "you've got to be a good neighbor at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...life-size statue of England's gallant Sir Walter Raleigh was slated for unveiling in London's Whitehall Park this week. But same day, Britain's National Society of Non-Smokers plans to celebrate the 341st anniversary of Explorer Raleigh's beheading by a royal ax-swinger. Reason: taking a leaf from the pipe of Virginia's Indians, Sir Walter is accused of being the villain who introduced tobacco into England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...Battle of Surigao Strait was the last time the historic battle line formation was to be used in naval warfare, and Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison writes its epitaph: "One can imagine the ghosts of all great admirals from Raleigh to Jellicoe standing at attention as Battle Line went into oblivion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: GREATEST & LAST BATTLE OF A NAVAL ERA | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...battle was a fading movie actress supported by her floor leader and lieutenant, a goateed mind reader. On the opposite side was a former nightclub pitchman supported by fire-eaters, sword-swallowers and comics. As a flock of Washington reporters perched outside the Pall Mall Room of the Hotel Raleigh, the annual meeting of the American Guild of Variety Artists grew as raucous as anything that ever happened on a carny midway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VAUDEVILLE: Blondie v. Blackie | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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