Word: timings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a faltering start, the Baltimore Colts overwhelmed the Los Angeles Rams, 45-26, to win the Western Conference title, will match pro football's best offense against the game's best defense (TIME, Nov. 30) in the play-off later this month with the Eastern Conference's champion New York Giants. ¶ Looking for more batting power, the New York Yankees staged the biggest trade of the off-season by giving up aging (37) Outfielder Hank Bauer, erratic Pitcher Don Larsen (1959 record: 6-7), fumble-thumbed Outfielder Norm Siebern, and Reserve First Baseman Marv Throneberry...
...TIME cover artist since 1955. His 1959 cover subjects: Harry Belafonte, Paul Tillich, Henry Moore and Stuart Symington...
...past three years, Harvard University has diligently appealed to its alumni in a well-planned drive to raise $82.5 million. Purpose: a lavish refurbishing of Harvard College (TIME, Nov. 26, 1956). Last month, still about $10 million short of the goal, Harvard went back to wealthy alumni who had already given. Last week the results were announced: out of deep pockets in three weeks flowed 18 six-figure gifts totaling $3,100,000, to boost the pledges to $75 million. No sooner had the word been issued than other Harvard-men jumped in to help raise the remaining...
...Republican. A strenuous-life aristocrat in the T.R. style, Lawyer Dana was an off-hours National Guard cavalryman, punched cattle in Mexico summers to stay in shape. At 36 he reorganized New Jersey's Spicer Manufacturing Co., maker of the first successful universal joint for autos. By the time Spicer was renamed Dana Corp. in 1946, it was a Toledo-based complex of five thriving auto-parts companies. Net sales last year: $168.5 million...
...onstage, creating with incredible vitality a superior human being: half-blind Anne Sullivan, whose stubborn skill lit up life itself for a deaf, blind and mute child named Helen Keller. Already, Anne Bancroft was The Miracle Worker of Playwright William Gibson's impressive new play (TIME...