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...Estes Kefauver's shaken hands. A few months later, after Dwight Eisenhower's election, Kennedy was set to thinking hard when Hubert Humphrey's wife Muriel remarked at a cocktail party: "If Stu Symington is the competition for President, then it's a wide-open race." Kennedy has been campaigning ever since. He has been in every state of the Union except Tennessee, has come to know and be known by some 1,500 professional Democrats who generally go to conventions. During the 1958 campaign alone he traveled 25,000 miles in 19 states. Between times...
...worth every nickel. It stands like an inverted Viking ship with a concrete arch for its keel. The vast ceiling of weathered planks sags slightly, tent fashion, from the central spine. From outside, the stadium looks as strange as a beached sea tortoise. Inside, its wide-open spaciousness, wintry light, and effect of weightlessness are exhilarating. The nation's foremost young architect, who has created such modern wonders as the General Motors Technical Center (TIME, July 2, 1956), Saarinen may well be right in calling this latest effort "perhaps the finest thing that we have done...
...Pittsburgh (4-1-1)-contained Army's offense (statistically the nation's best), dominated the second half with a wide-open attack...
...goals in the Crimson's eight games for a 1.4 average, will open in the nets, while Bill Rapp, Marsh McCall, and Charlie Steele will be at the halfbacks. The varsity will need all the defense it can get, as Penn specializes in the same kind of wide-open attack that enabled Amherst to hand the varsity its only defeat of the year...
Lost Weekend. Frankie Boy started the week by taking his pals up the river to the wide-open town of Newport, Ky. They ate dinner there, watched a floor show, shot craps, played blackjack, tanked up and sluiced back to their rented Madison home at 3:30 a.m. The day's work was scheduled to start grinding at 6:30, and Frankie wobbled to the set on time. The script called for its hero to arrive in town by bus, and half of Madison lined the streets waving and cheering. Frankie appeared to be returning the greetings, smiling through...