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...pick & shovel corps of science toils far afield, probing the earth for traces of vanished men and civilizations. Recent doings of the diggers...
...profits of Toni (home permanent wave) Co. When Gillette grabbed up Toni for $20 million, Luckman spent $5 million for another (Hedy Home Wave) that was less well known, planned to change all that by thumping advertising. In branching out last week into food products, Luckman had not gone afield: oleomargarine uses many of the same raw materials as soap (Lever's British parent company, Lever Bros. & Unilever, Ltd., and its Dutch twin already dominate the world margarine market...
Your otherwise accurate magahogan [on Disc Jockey Jim Hawthorne] is far afield in its translation of the name of the home of Hoganites. It is Pasahogan, not Pasadena-hogan as reported in your May 10 issue...
Maybe somebody doped the Yale squad between the halves, because they surged out of the Field House an inspired group. The Crimson, whose dressing room was further afield, ducked out for the last half from under the caves of a nearby structure wet and bedraggled...
...Ankles. Lou Boudreau (rhymes with mud row) himself was the red-hottest Indian of them all. Despite a slight banquet-season paunch, Lou was batting a phenomenal .519 from his unorthodox crouch and was leading the league in runs batted in. Afield he looked a little slow (his brittle ankles were troubling him again), but he still had the uncanny knack of outguessing the ball that made him the league's top shortstop last year. As a manager, Boudreau has been somewhat less phenomenal. Yet when President Bill Veeck tried to trade Boudreau off last season (the club finished...