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Twelve years ago he was a foundryman in a Detroit war plant. Today Yerby lives on the French Riviera with his tiny, light-skinned wife Flora and their four children. When he is not whipping out profitable prose in his villa garden in Cimiez, Nice. Author Yerby goes skin-diving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE GOLDEN CORN: HE WRITES TO PLEASE | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Crimson goalie Lindsay Fischer, who played perhaps his best game of the season, stopped shorts time and again in his muddy goal. Late in the third period. Fischer blocked three shots in the space of a few seconds, only to have Yale's forwards bring the ball down again. The...

Author: By Stephen L. Seftenberg, | Title: Bulldog Soccer Team Tops Crimson on Wet Field, 1-0 | 11/20/1954 | See Source »

In some areas, so much shot has been fired at elusive ducks that birds have actually died of lead poisoning without even being hit (diving for food in shallow water, ducks sometimes swallow astonishing quantities of soft-lead pellets).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A TIME FOR DUCKS | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, 82, continued to prove that age is not a bar to the full life. He struck a Greek-god pose (in a bathing suit) before displaying his diving and swimming skills to news photographers. He also celebrated the publication of his own summing up, A Philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

NORTH TO DANGER, by Virgil Burford as told to Walt Morey (254 pp.; John Day $3.75) makes a fine companion piece to Scott's elephant adventure. Diver Burford spent years in Alaska, mostly pirating salmon from cannery-owned traps or diving to the ocean floor to mend the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coexistence with Giants | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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