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...handsome, cowlicked Yale crew "captain, James Stillman Rockefeller, smiled out from a TIME cover, his expression confident that the Olympic crew that he led would go forth, "the bronze-skinned ones, to conquer the oarsmen of the world, as warlike Menelaus led the bronze-greaved Argives against Troy of old." The late Arthur Brisbane, his fancy tickled by the responsibilities of "this stalwart scion of honorable American lines," imagined him stirring his men to victory with "winged words plucked bright and burning" from the Homeric Greek: ri(j>d' OUTCOS ecrTTjre TeflrjTrores ^Ore ve(3pol ("Why stand ye here...
...Hawaii. Hero Gardner McKay, who has had more advance publicity than most established stars, proved himself a performer with all the animation of a monkeypod; his face, said one reporter, looked "like a death mask of Gary Cooper." The plot line spun itself out as the story of Adam Troy, Korean war veteran, who dreams of Texas while piloting his schooner Tiki past such hazards as a pigeon-breasted murderess peddling a hot black pearl. The Tiki and Captain Troy are also headed for a hurricane, an engine-room fire, a rock fight on Pitcairn Island, a death struggle with...
...Class Committee of 1959 has announced the election of Frederick C. Cabot as Permanent Class Treasurer and Charles Devens, Jr. as Permanent Class Secretary. R. Dyke Benjamin, Richard E. Rubenstein, John P. Demos, J. Lindsay Coolidge and Stuart Troy have been chosen by the Committee to act as Class Agents...
North Dakota beat Michigan State, 4-3, Saturday, to win the National Collegiate hockey championship tournament in Troy, N.Y. In a second game, Boston College defeated St. Lawrence...
...assure you that he can move around." Said Ike, by his own account: "You send the man and I will send him to battle in a litter because he can do better that way than most people I know." Officer identified subsequently by the White House: Lieut. General Troy H. Middleton, who led Eisenhower's VIII Corps in the Battle of the Bulge, is now president of Louisiana State University...