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...return to the days of yesteryear, when a man was judged by his mind and not his Earned Run Average. Let them eat chipped beef

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Problem of Coddled Athletes | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

Clocks & Targets. The modern gun-slinger draws against the clock instead of the marshal, fires paraffin-loaded shells that would make the bad hombres of yesteryear laugh themselves sick. Before making the draw, he must keep his hand on a button four inches from the holster. When his hand leaves the button, the clock starts running. The sound of the shot stops the clock. The Colorado Frontier Gunslingers' President Jim Dillon, a Denver butcher who likes to wear Western clothes under his meatcutter's apron, has been timed at a flashy .12 sec. In other contests, contestants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Draw, Podner! | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Thanks in part to Rutherford (credited with having been first to split the atom), the world has had cause to take a long, hard, wary look at the scientist. This has impelled the publishers to reissue their Snow of yesteryear, and it can be read today not only as a good, plain narrative (Snow's later Strangers and Brothers series testifies to his skill), but as an insider's account of just how it feels to be an inmate of science's glass menagerie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sin Among the Scientists | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...that voice: With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains brought law and order to the early Western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of Justice. Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver! THE LONE RANGER RIDES AGAIN...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: From a Kazoo Kulture To Wheaties Democracy | 12/4/1958 | See Source »

...will keep sales improving. Dealers also look for a sales boost from the new federal law that requires factory-suggested list prices to be posted on all cars; they believe it will help them regain the confidence of customers who were burned by the razzle-dazzle price packs of yesteryear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Fast Getaway | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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