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...shaggy man walked stolidly back and forth in front of the Michigan bench. Under similar pressures, other big-time coaches kick water buckets, curse officials, bully their assistants, and alternately cheer and chew out their players. Michigan's Benjamin Oosterbaan, 49, seems as imperturbable as a 50-yard stripe. But his men know that, inside, he suffers. Says one: "He looks like a character out of a Russian novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Will to Prepare | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...when he was bought from the Baltimore Orioles, but Righthander Don Larsen, home from a summer on the Yankees' Denver farm, is the man who makes the difference. With three victories in three starts, he has helped to revive an old Yankee habit: making those pin-stripe uniforms convince a ballplayer that he is just a little better than he ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Is the Man? | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...Dangerating. "Planning to give people presents? Why not a phono-rama for the family, a cholly boss for the kids . . .? Wear-with-all lipstick makes a cheap gift for the wife. Why not write her a check for the handsome celaperm acetate taffeta shower curtain with the elegant lurex stripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Let's Kick This Around | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...outside eyes, Café Filho is a careful dresser with a preference for dark blue pin-stripe suits, grey ties and white silk shirts. At home he likes to lounge around in pajamas, reading, sipping coffee and chain-smoking strong Brazilian cigarettes (Hollywoods). Younger-looking than most men of his age, he still takes an occasional early-morning dip in the Atlantic surf on Copacabana beach. Despite his extensive reading, he is less educated, less cultured than Vargas was-but he promises to make a better President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Giant at the Bridge | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...said he was sure "Lloyd Jordan's films will prove the same thing that the Cornell ones do. The ball was caught inside by a safe margin. It is not true that Jackson caught the ball in the air and came down with his right foot on the chalk stripe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Says Film Shows Third Score Legal | 10/13/1954 | See Source »

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