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...Pairing. Whoever was right, Alvin Dark, 42, is neither stupid nor ready to quit baseball. He is a Southerner-Oklahoma-born, Louisiana-educated-and one of the most intensely competitive men anywhere. He was a triple-threat halfback at Louisiana State, a Marine officer in World War II, an outstanding shortstop for the Giants from 1950 to 1956. As Giants manager for the last three years, he has won the National League pennant once (in 1962), finished third twice...
Died. Willie ("The Wisp") Galimore, 29, star halfback of the Chicago Bears pro football team, who averaged 4.45 yards per carry over six seasons and in 1957 tied a Bears record of four touchdowns in a single game; in an auto accident that also killed Bears End John Farrington, 28, when their Volkswagen flipped as they raced to beat an eleven o'clock curfew at training camp; in Rensselaer...
...Pierce, at 41, became the first Negro elected to the board of a major U.S. manufacturing company-U.S. Industries Inc., producer of automation equipment, with 1963 sales of $96 million. He is a partner in the Manhattan law firm that handles U.S. Industries' labor matters. A star halfback and Phi Beta Kappa student at Cornell, he later served as antitrust counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, became a campaigning Republican, and in 1959 was appointed a judge in New York City. As trim as a college athlete, Pierce still finds time to teach a law course...
Football is fine, but track is even finer. It is newer, too. Grambling had neither a track nor a team until five years ago. What's more, Track Coach Tom Williams, a onetime halfback with the Los Angeles Rams, gets only ten athletic scholarships a year. But he makes the most of what he has. Williams can field nine runners capable of cracking 10 sec. in the 100-yd. dash, a 174-ft. discus thrower, a 26-ft. broad jumper -and the best sprint relay team...
Just who's going to catch these wonder men is a question. Football halfback John Dockery, a .390 hitter with the freshmen, might do it, or junior Gary Miller, a second stringer last year, could fill...