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...year veteran at 28, Mantle should be in his peak years. He still has perhaps the highest potential in major-league history, and his past record is star caliber. But Mantle is wildly erratic. At his best, he hits home runs in fusillades-as he was doing last week. At his worst, he strikes out in dreary succession. For more than a year his bad days have outnumbered the good...
...nation's most remarkable sportsmen, Norman Clyde is close kin to the West's lonely mountain men of the 19th century, trail blazers who had the curiosity, the courage and the craft to discover what lay beyond the next peak. He works as a guide only long enough to finance his own expeditions, and he can exist for months at a stretch in the Sierra. His towering pack makes him self-sufficient. Not only does it contain such essentials as dehydrated food and a three-quarter ax, but also shoe nails and a cobbler's hammer, material...
...maybe faster than me, and only two of us can be chosen." Most coaches agree that Clark is just beginning to break records. Says Clark himself: "I've got to gain 20 Ibs., and when I do in a couple of years I'll be at my peak." But even before he reaches that peak, he may already have become the best sprinter anywhere...
...injuries, frostbite-and now Mrs. Bading herself, a slight (95 lbs., 4 ft. 11 in.) woman, was sick from lack of oxygen. Before Crews finished radioing his report, one of the greatest rescue operations of Alaskan history was under way. For four grueling days, mountain climbers struggled toward the peak, and daredevil airmen dropped supplies and ferried rescuers, winged among deadly granite walls...
Died. Lucrezia Bori, 72, Spanish-born (as Lucrecia Borjay Gonzalez de Riancho) Metropolitan Opera lyric soprano who began her Met career singing with Caruso, gave tender feeling to the roles of Mimi and Violetta, was a Met favorite for 24 years before retiring in 1936 while at her peak ("I want to finish while I am still at my best"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...