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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...rubber 10 times this season, usually sparks the Crimson attack at the center position on the first line. A good stick-handler and passer, Winslow has been surprisingly subtle in evading opposing defensemen and in setting up plays. Main sparkplug of the second forward trio, Stacy Hulse, is second highest scorer, with nine tallies to his credit...
...many a chore of planning for the New Deal, has also served Business as a consultant in Scientific Management (whose original high priest was the late Frederick W. Taylor). Co-Author Murray, whom many rate the ablest of U. S. Labor's leaders-and certainly one of its highest-paid ($18,000 a year)-is vice president of United Mine Workers and of C. I. 0., chairman of the thriving Steel Workers Organizing Committee...
...engineer, he spent his childhood roving all over the West with his father. After a year at the University of California, he dropped out and went to work for an Oakland paper. But he soon decided that journalism was not his line, returned to the university and graduated with highest honors. He likes reading science books of all kinds, band music, complicated ice-cream sodas. His thick black hair stands almost straight up, as though he himself carried a constant electrical charge...
...year, an assured job at second base under the tutorial eye of old Cornelius McGillicuddy (Connie Mack). His was not only the biggest bonus in baseball history ($20,000 more than the previous top, given Rick Ferrell by the Browns in 1929), but it made Rookie McCoy the highest-paid baseballer of the year. His 1940 income of $55,000 will be more than the salary of Joe Di Maggio, Jimmy Foxx or Hank Greenberg...
...compete against 14 show-ring jumpers. With riders to "lift" them, horses have been known to jump almost 9 ft. high. Bareback, few have ever equaled .man's best high-jumping record: 6 ft. 9¾ in. Last week's contest was a washout. Horse's highest jump: 6 ft. 2 in. Man's highest jump...