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...Puritans demonstrated superiority in the 50-yard backstroke again when Jerry Moulton and Bob Eakin took both first and second places. In the final event, the team of Rubin, Kaston, Singer and Rod Wolfe clinched the meet for the Puritans by swimming the 200-yard relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Defeats Pierson in I.A.B. To Win House-College Swim Title | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

Into the Stands. For La Salle, winning was not as simple as the score suggested. All through the first period, while All-America Tom Gola and his teammates tried to get untracked, a tall (6 ft. 4 in., 185 lbs.), poker-faced playboy of a Mountaineer named Rodney ("Hot Rod") Hundley ran wild. On the La Salle bench, Coach Ken Loeffler screamed himself into a purple fury as he watched Hot Rod bamboozle the champs with unpredictable shots from impossible angles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hot Rod Cools Off | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...that can change collegiate basketball from a foul-ridden melee into the exciting spectacle that it was meant to be. Only the week before, the crewcut youngster (20) had boosted the Mountaineers into the N.C.A.A. playoffs by beating George Washington University almost singlehanded. In a tense overtime period, Hot Rod had really turned it on. He fired a foul shot-and sank it-from behind his back. With time running out, he stood there, calmly chomping on his bubble gum while he twirled the ball on the tip of his banana-broad fingers. When two G.W. defenders moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hot Rod Cools Off | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...uncertain future. A tire or tie-rod failure on a Mercedes-Benz, an army plot like the two Pérez Jiménez staged, or a simple slip-up by a guard or a food-taster might remove the strongman from the scene. Lacking democracy's orderly system for succession, Venezuela might suffer a turbulent struggle for power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Skipper of the Dreamboat | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Television had its own revival when Kraft TV Theater repeated Rod Serling's Patterns, which was first shown a month ago. A study of war to the knife in a large corporation, Patterns employed the same cast (Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Richard Kiley), to win the approval of those critics who had missed it earlier. But at week's end there was at least one strongly dissenting voice: the Watt Street Journal. In a long, viewing-with-alarm editorial, the Journal conceded the play's dramatic power but expressed shock at its ethical standards and concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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