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A rugged forward, Downs tallied on driving lay-ups and converted 12 of 13 free throws, many of them at crucial moments. Junior Dan McFadden added 20 points and 6 ft., 10 in. Gerry Glynn, despite an awkward and generally unimpressive showing, hit for 10.

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Elis Down Quintet in New Haven; Dartmouth Rally Tops Sextet, 4-2 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

On this airy note last week, Britain's most indefatigable tourist began his rugged tour as the first member of the British royal family to visit India since independence. Though his trip grew out of an invitation from the Indian Science Congress, attending scientific meetings was the least of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Auld Lang Syne | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Again and again Batista's army announced that "the campaign is almost won." But his 1,000 barracks-fat soldiers around the Sierra Maestra showed less and less hunger for the fight. In the long stalemate the rebel army grew in size and fervor. Castro talked and talked of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Vengeful Visionary | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

WORLD SCOOP, blared a Page One banner headline announcing Mailman Noel Barber's series on "a war nobody knows about." To gather the "whole wicked story" in Tibet, Barber (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and Fellow Mail Correspondent Ralph Izzard trekked 200 miles along the rugged Nepal-Tibet border with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Helping It Happen | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

"The true lovers of Jane Austen are those who do not advertise their devotion, but are content to whisper 'Dear Jane' as they pause at the grave in the ancient aisle of Winchester Cathedral." This remark (from the Concise Cambridge History of English Literature) shows precisely the position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jane Extended | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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