Word: robertses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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POSING long hours for Henry Koerner's TIME cover portrait was a completely new experience for Pitcher Robin Roberts.
That was the moment and the look that Artist Koerner decided that he would try to catch for his portrait. Patiently, he persuaded Roberts to hold the pose hour after hour while he drew his wondrously exact pen sketches (see cut) and then put oil to canvas.
Before long Roberts had the same mixed feelings about Hillman's searching interviews. He kept telling teammates: "I'm tired of that guy following me around." But in the end, Roberts, a careful craftsman himself, loosened up and grew to admire Hillman's persistence. Even when Hillman...
The architects' plans for the restoration of Memorial Hall to its former splendor have gone out to three contractors for their bids, Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Groups, said yesterday. As soon as an acceptable bid comes in, Roberts added, work will begin on the $80,000 to...
¶The University of Illinois has announced that after September 1960 it will drop its noncredit freshman course. Rhetoric 100. The course, aimed at teaching college students "the common decencies" of spelling and grammar, is being dropped to put pressure on high schools to produce graduates with at least an...