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...Phillies will probably finish in last place, but they are not that bad a team. They have the batting champion in Richie Ashburn, an aging but effective pitcher in Robin Roberts, and some young players who could come on. Wally Post and Harry Anderson are the best of the young players and Ray Semproch heads a string of competent pitchers

Author: By Tampa JIM Benkard, | Title: National League: Pittsburgh Picked To End Long Era of Dismal Finishes | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...tournament was run in round-robin style, every entry dueling each of the others once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Team Wins In House Fencing | 3/26/1959 | See Source »

...Robin's Eggs. In Nottingham, England, retired Coldstream Guards Major A.M.G. Beattie swells his income by selling acorns from Sherwood Forest, mostly to U.S golf clubs, schools, agricultural colleges and longbow-struck little boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...best world tournament performance to date, the U.S. nationals crushed East Germany last Friday, 9 to 2, to clinch a spot in the six-team, round-robin finals. Captain Bill Cleary, his brother, and Owen all scored for the Americans. The three ex-Crimson aces have been less effective since then, as the U.S. teams has absorbed two straight lickings by the Russians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Varsity Aces Star for U.S. Sextet | 3/10/1959 | See Source »

Never Steal Anything Small (Universal-International) was first conceived by Playwright Maxwell Anderson and Director Rouben Mamoulian, back in 1953, as a Broadway musical drama-a sort of Guys and Dolls with a social message. The message: If Robin were alive today, he would be a labor leader, and even if he gave to the poor what he stole from the rich, he would still be damned for a Hood. What with the conservative temper of the times, and a series of union scandals, the authors could never quite raise the money fof a Broadway production-a difficulty that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 9, 1959 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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