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A large portion of the credit for this Crimson victory must go, unfortunately, to the adverse weather which prevailed throughout the game. A high wind was blowing at most times and the temperature was a wintry 40 degrees. B.C. pitcher George Giersch, perhaps the finest hurler in the Greater Boston...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Trounces B.C., 9-1; Wadsworth Gives Up Only 4 Hits | 4/29/1959 | See Source »

I was tremendously pleased to see the picture of my father, Representative Howard W. Smith of Va., on the cover of TIME [Feb. 2]. However, I am weary of the same old adjectives used to describe this wonderful, complex man. "Dour," "doleful," "lanky," "bushy-browed," "wintry-eyed," and sometimes worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

When the wintry winds blow and the snowflakes fly, think of those, somewhat more sportingly talented than us, who are seeking the sun in the Southland. Imagine them, lying on the soft sand, sipping exotic potions, or joyfully exhorting their comrades on to greater heights in a friendly game of...

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

Next to Speaker Sam Rayburn, 76, a 23-termer to whom the Lower House is a home, 14-term Virginia Democrat Howard Worth Smith is the most powerful Congressman. "Judge" Smith, 75, chairman of the Rules Committee, is the wintry-eyed gatekeeper who decides which legislation written by other committees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Mr. Sam's House Rules | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Not wishing, apparently, to pass beyond those islands-which may yet represent the farthest outposts of American painting-Wyeth reaches and tacks about, fishing for details as if they were really whales. His most ambitious pictures are sometimes the least successful, being too finicky and insistent. But Roasted Chestnuts bids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Young Realist | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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