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Dates: during 1950-1959
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U.S.C. Coach Jess Mortensen is still polishing Long's form. "We're hoping to get him a little lower over his right leg so he can be pushing on the shot a longer period of time. He also has a tendency to let the shot drop a little too low just before the throw." But he speaks of Long's ultimate capabilities with awe: "If I say 70 feet, people will think I'm crazy. But if I don't say it, this boy will probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Long Put | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

With other self-conscious youngsters whose names begin with G, 16-year-old Ernest Green, Negro, filed across the speakers' platform set up last week in the stadium of Little Rock's Central High School, got a handshake and a diploma from Principal Jess W. Matthews. Watching intently were Ernest's mother and brother, his classmates, part of a detail of 200 federalized National Guardsmen and 137 cops. Two days before, as Central High seniors marched away from their baccalaureate service, a white youth was arrested for spitting in the face of a Negro girl. But from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quiet Day at Little Rock | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

From California's Republican Governor Goodwin Jess Knight at an Arizona vacation spot last week came the nod to go ahead on the political treaty of the year: Goodie agreed to travel to Washington this week, receive the blessings of the White House, and announce that "for the good of the Republican Party" he would run for the U.S. Senate next year, leaving his governor's chair open for Senator William Fife Knowland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Party Truce | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

From a mining syndicate headed by Baltimore's C. E. Tuttle and onetime General Services Administrator Jess Larson, Cord and associates collected $17 million for their uranium claims near Charley Steen's famed Mi Vida mine (TIME, June 27, 1955) in Utah's Big Indian district, the biggest price ever paid in the U.S. for uranium holdings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Cord Rolls Again | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...tins; another suggested that the apple growers of Yakima be invited to move to Cripple Creek. A pie-testing task force was dispatched to various restaurants; other remedies will be taken to ensure travelers passing through this town that apple pies are worthy of the name of Yakima. JESS LINDEMAN President

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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