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Perhaps the gubernatorial races are merely the thermometer that shows the country's political temperature. Yet there is a good possibility that the governors boost their party's mercury by lending coherence to their state party during the dong days of the Presidential campaign...
Died. Hugh Duffy, 87, the heaviest hitter (for one season) in baseball; after long illness; in Boston. Small (5 ft. 7 in., 165 Ibs. in his prime), genial Outfielder Duffy batted a record .438 (for which he got a $12.50-a-month pay boost) while playing with the Boston Beaneaters (National League) in 1894, compiled a .330 lifetime average. His record withstood the assaults of such great hitters as Willie Keeler (.432 in 1897) and Rogers Hornsby (.424 in 1924), but Duffy modestly disclaimed any special knowledge of batting lore. "You just walk up there," he said...
...dealers are also showing off their 1955 entries. The new Pontiac is 2½ in. lower and as much as 3.5 in. longer than this year's. The new V-8 engine has stepped horsepower up from 127 to 180, and an optional carburetor will boost it to 200 h.p. Buick, Olds and Cadillac, which made complete model changes last year, have only face-lifted the models to be shown in the next few weeks. But there are dozens of engineering changes. Cadillac has a 260-h.p. engine, up from 230. In its new Dynaflow transmission, Buick...
...Eisenhower Administration, which does not view bigness in itself as cause for antitrust action, is nevertheless considering eight possible auto suits involving such things as dealer contracts, finance-company tie-ins and sales of parts. And under an Administration less friendly to business, any new boost of G.M.'s share of the market might well bring an all-out antitrust attack...
...Yale Corporation is also considering raising the amount of scholarship aid. A boost could not be supported by the present policy of scholarship financing from endowment income and would necessarily raise the deficit...