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...lain fecklessly in the cellar. At last they are hot. For one giddy moment last week, playing like champions, they even swashbuckled themselves to the top of the league. It was a sight to move any man to comment. "Judas priest" murmured Branch Rickey, the 75-year-old baseball seer who more than any had shaped the miracle of Pittsburgh. "We are no longer a convenience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Old Master Painter | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...obscurity in (our) standard text, due to the confusion of two words of similar appearance, has been cleared up in Isaiah 21:8. "And the cried, a lion" makes no sense at all. "And the seer cried" suits the context perfectly. The letters 'RYH (lion) are a scrib's mistake for HR'H (the seer...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Story of Uncertainty | 2/16/1956 | See Source »

...carried from 2 to 3 colts Revolvers" and knew how to use them. He was a wagoner, a cobbler, a woodsman, a cattle breeder, a farmer, a doctor of sorts who could perform a "surguicicle operation," an impassioned preacher, a shrewd businessman, a layer-on of hands, a seer of fascinating visions. He was one of the toughest men that ever walked, but the Indians (who ate out of his hand) named him Yawgawts, which means Cry-Baby (Lee himself preferred to render it "Man of Tender Passions"), and his foster-father once exhorted him, saying: "I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Splendid Saga | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Back in the heat of summer, when the American League pennant race was still relatively cool, a grey-thatched seer named Casey Stengel squinted into the future. He saw his New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians scrambling through the stretch drive toward the flag. "That Cleveland," he said, with magnificent scorn for the team that last year had beaten him out of his sixth championship in a row. "I hope everybody beats them. Cleveland! All they got is Wynn and Score for pitchers. Detroit! They been a disappointment. But they'll be doing me a favor if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Favor for Casey | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...painting art, all the invention of painters, and all the knowledge of painting of the past." In the center panel of the triptych (see cut) a Greek warrior, representing Europe torn between East and West, stands hesitant. To his right, in an ascending crescent, are a traitor, a seer, and a standoffish sort of god. To his left, the battle rages, a lost one, because "battles are always lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: O.K.'s O.K. | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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