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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wobbled across the Channel in his 484-lb. replica of Bleriot's monoplane ("It was like sitting on a fluttering leaf"), eventually made it from Arc to Arch in 12 hr. 17 min. 22 sec. Clutching a pet tortoise named Fangio, Health Faddist Dr. Barbara Moore Pataleewa, 55, set out from Marble Arch on foot, switched to a motorcycle, hopped a plane from Croydon to Le Touquet, on the English Channel, then ran most of the 135 miles to Paris, sipping fruit juice and munching grass along the way. One competitor used souped-up power lawnmowers to and from...
...Missouri. After the war, the big man with the bull-bellow voice lost no time building a football winner and a 'Gator Bowl victory at the University of Oklahoma. He was big time and growing bigger. When the University of Maryland offered him a free hand to set up a football machine in 1947, Tatum accepted for the chance to show people how a football factory should really...
...roses for Tatum, even at Maryland. The university was criticized for overemphasizing football; in one year the school handed out 93 scholarships, averaging $944 each, to Tatum's players. When Dr. Wilson Elkins, a Rhodes scholar and onetime University of Texas quarterback, was named president in 1954 and set out to raise Maryland's academic standing, Tatum got itchy feet. In 1956, taking a salary cut from $18,500 to $15,000, Jim Tatum went home to North Carolina. Said he with a rum-Wing chuckle: "I'm going back to North Carolina...
...recognize the signs of affluence. After 3½ years of traveling on the slow budget of a sustaining show, CBS's Captain Kangaroo (weekdays 8:15-9 a.m., Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m., E.D.T.) has it made. Last month the good captain got his first new set, an ark called the S.S. Treasure House; last week captain and crew alike made an overland trip to tape their show at the Minneapolis Aquatennial. All the winds are fair, and by fall, Captain Kangaroo will have a full supply of sponsors for the first time...
...kinkajou, and a ten-week-old Himalayan sun bear. Another colleague, Cosmo ("Gus") Allegretti, inhabits the skin of the durable Dancing Bear, is also the prime mover behind other sympathetic creatures-Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose and the somnolent Grandfather Clock. Without prompting devices. Actor Keeshan, 32, meanders around the set using man-to-man language that can make a four-year-old feel almost grown up. He handles his influence on open minds with care: "There'll be no slapstick and no horror, no matter how innocently presented...