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...mysterious lingo over slotbacks, stunters and buttonhooks. Even the innocent are mesmerized. Action piles upon action, thrill upon guaranteed thrill, and all with such bewildering speed that at the end the fans are literally limp. At New York's Yankee Stadium, where 63,000 hardy souls braved sleet to watch the Giants edge Cleveland 17-13, a man turned fondly to his wildly cheering wife. "Honey," he said gently, "do you understand anything about this game?" "Not a thing," she smiled, "except that I like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vinnie, Vidi, Vici | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Harvard's Junior Varsity football team braved snow, sleet, and Dartmouth yesterday, only to be frustrated by another opponent: time. On two different occasions the clock ran out on the J.V.'s, permitting the Green to escape with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clock Stops Crimson JV's Twice As Indians Escape With 0-0 Tie | 10/27/1962 | See Source »

...family, friends and followers labored to and beyond the point of exhaustion. But both Jack and Bobby say that Teddy "was the hardest-working one of the whole bunch." He learned to fly, barnstormed by himself throughout the West, landed at strange airports in wind, rain, snow, hail and sleet. He would do almost anything to win delegates or favorable headlines. For the Kennedy cause, he rode a bucking bronco for a respectable five seconds in a Montana rodeo. On a foray into Wisconsin, he made the first ski jump of his life. He balked only at holding a cigarette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Teddy & Kennedyism | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...hour exams approach and the need for escape increases, one is tempted to brave the snow and sleet and slush to reach Tremont Street and try the movies offered this week. But take care, for not all the films playing this week are designed to dispel anxiety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT TO SEE | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...about his game ever since the winter tour began. He failed to survive the cut in the Los Angeles Open, was out of the money in the San Diego Open, debated quitting the tour before the Bing Crosby tournament. But to Ford, the rugged courses and trying weather (rain, sleet, snow, hail, 40-m.p.h. winds) of California's Monterey Peninsula proved peculiarly hospitable. On the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with chunky Joe Campbell, Ford collected the winner's purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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