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Hoblitzell made a big name for himself in high school as a trackman and golfer. (He still plays in the mid-70s.) After West Virginia University ('34), he turned to the insurance and real-estate business in Parkersburg, his home town, is now a banker in Ravenswood and a leading light in educational affairs (onetime president, state School Board Association; member, White House Conference on Education). A bundle of energy in politics, he won his biggest political fame when he helped Underwood into office, his biggest reward when he was made boss of West Virginia's thriving G.O.P...
...puts in a lot of time in the air. To check up on his command last year, he logged 739 flying hours in his carpeted, wood-paneled command C-54-enough mileage to cross the U.S. coast-to-coast 70 times. Ruddy-faced and relaxed, he plays excellent golf (mid-70s)-but he can never be really relaxed about his Air Force assignment...
...round softies of today, get on your feet and salute a man." The man thus challengingly saluted: Frank Crosby, dead in his mid-70s, who 50 years ago fought the longest and strangest knockout fight in history. The saluter: Ed Wray, St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports editor...