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...might not have gotten past Great Britain if Kelleher's gamble had misfired. No Davis Cup captain is supposed to field anyone except his two top-ranking players in Cup play. National honor is at stake, and all that. So everyone assumed that McKinley and Dennis Ralston, who had carried the U.S. past Mexico in the American Zone finals, would play...
...Kelleher decided otherwise. Ralston had been brilliant against Mexico, whipping Rafael Osuna to win for the U.S. after Osuna had beaten McKinley...
Three notches behind Ralston is Eugene Scott, 25, a big server from New York. Yaleman Scott won this year's Eastern grass court championships in South Orange, N.J., last year beat McKinley and Veteran Vic Seixas in indoor matches...
...Ralston, or Scott, could succeed McKinley as No. 1 U.S. amateur. Indeed they may have no choice. For, like the Australians before him, McKinley has been offered something like $50,000 to turn professional, and only Forest Hills, the Davis Cup, and a few more months at Texas' Trinity University stand...
Most chickens are grown by such large companies as Ralston Purina or by co-ops of dozens of growers. But modern methods have enabled individual growers to become big. The richest and one of the biggest independent growers in the U.S. is balding Bennie Clyde Rogers, 58, of Morton, Miss., who has 6,000,000 birds under his wing and boasts that last year his several businesses grossed $40 million. Rogers started as a feed salesman, swapping his Purina chicken feed for eggs from hard-pressed farmers during the Depression and piling up wealth with dried eggs during World...