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...week. One of the first things he did was to start Wilt reading Helen Keller's The Story of My Life "to develop his sense of feel and touch." Phog's current project: teaching Wilt finger manipulation, how to put English on the ball, how to spin it in from all angles when he is jammed in the bucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wilt the Stilt | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...single-wing also, but the Caldwell version is similar to Jordan's only in that they have the same name. Harvard relies for the most part on the power-play--the smash up the middle or off tackle, using little deception. Princeton uses a buck-lateral sequence, a fullback spin series, and a whole cluster of deceptive, crowd-appealing plays...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Princeton Eleven Favored to Defeat Crimson In 48th Renewal of Big Three Series Today | 11/5/1955 | See Source »

...another spin to the gay whirl, Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro flew 665 miles northwest to Lima one day last week. It was a historic occasion. Ever since Chile defeated them in the War of the Pacific (1879-83), Peru and Bolivia have sullenly blamed each other for their joint misfortune. But from the moment that Peruvian President Manuel Odría gave him a big abrazo at the airport, Paz Estenssoro was treated like a long-lost brother. Bands played, a Cadillac convertible drove the Presidents through cheering throngs. Paz responded: "Peru and Bolivia have an ancestral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Social Whirl | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...goodhearted scientist who has discovered a mildly radioactive substance called Taurum while experimenting with gold at an atomic pile. Taurum turns into a crop multiplying wonder drug when applied to the soil. And John Henry, in search of more gold to convert, is soon in a head-whirling spin on the Washington merry-go-around. Author Alfred (Raising a Riot) Toombs's hot-weather farce hilariously ribs and roams the nation's capital, from cocktail binges to congressional investigations. The underlying moral, if there is one, is that the national sense of humor is a standard of sanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pay Dirt | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...tower to poor MacDougal (symbol of Scotch commerce), spends hours doting on a road runner bird (symbol of the Old Spanish Southwest) in the pet department at Woolworth's (23rd Street branch). She opens her door to a bevy of characters as split-and-mixed as herself; they spin poetic stories in a troubadourish vein, seek peace and unity in the heart of a whirl of fantasy. In a Farther Country fades out with Marietta and one of her wacky acquaintances revolving in a dream world to the accompaniment of a fancy Goyen epitaph: "Her body became like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seed in Her Hair | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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