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Died. Lynwood Thomas ("Schoolboy") Rowe, 51, an affable giant (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.) from Waco, Texas who was a high school star at golf, tennis, track-and-field and football before be coming an ace righthander for the Detroit Tigers from 1933 to 1942, relied on assorted amulets, including a broken jade elephant and a high-hopping spitball, during a spectacular 1934 season in which he won 24 games, 16 consecutively; of a heart attack; in El Dorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 20, 1961 | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...Ashby Report has stirred new hope and ambition. As one Lagos schoolboy put it last week: "I am not the smartest in my class, but I am not the dumbest. Until I heard of the new plan, I had no hope of going on. Now I think I can. Oh, sir! I will study very hard, and maybe I will be as good or better than the smartest ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Nation, New Schools | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

With two victories under their belt, and 11 schoolboy all-Americans on the roster, the Yardling swimmers will open tonight's festivities in a bout with the Army Plebes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity to Face Army Swimmers | 12/17/1960 | See Source »

...Borazonic is latest English schoolboy slang, derived from new metal, borazon. Translation: "Absolutely wizard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1960 | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

Labor unions, unlike duchies or debts, are not customarily passed down from father to son. Except in the Carpenters' union. From the time he was a schoolboy, Maurice Hutcheson was groomed as carefully as any prince to take over the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, which had long been the personal fief of his father, the late William ("Big Bill") Hutcheson. On his retirement in 1952, after 36 years as the dictator of the brotherhood, Big Bill simply turned the union over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Silent One | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

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