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Picking all-star teams is a thankless task. Invariably-whether it is an All-America football, All-Star baseball, Davis Cup or Olympic team-its pickers are heckled by grumblers who think they could do a better job. Last year, when the Professional Golfers Association selected ten pros to represent the U. S. in Novem ber's biennial Ryder Cup matches with Great Britain, the pickers were greeted not only with the customary chipped beefing but with a sizzling roast by fiery little Gene Sarazen - omitted from the team for the first time since...
...Stettinius strode into the lobby of Washington's stately, white-marble Federal Reserve Building, hurried upstairs to a cool office. Usually he did not leave before 10 p.m. Mr. Stettinius last week quit his $100,000 a-year chairmanship of U. S. Steel to take the payless, possibly thankless job of supplying the raw materials for steeling the U. S. In an identical upstairs office sat Mr. Knudsen, who was last week given leave of absence from the presidency of General Motors Corp., to see that finished planes, guns, uniforms, shells, etc., are turned out at maximum speed...
Nearest thing to an ideal man for this thankless job was quiet, learned, earnest, long-laboring Coordinator (now ICC chairman) Joseph B. Eastman, whose honesty is honored by railroad men, railroad-baiters and shippers alike. Last week, after seven years' study, the Coordinator's subsidy report was published. It did not make pleasant reading for railroad...
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...Rainwater are three lucking backs who generate power aplenty. They are all too big to become accomplished spinners so they just lower their heads and ram into the line for their yardage. It's much loss complicated that way, and there are three of them to alternate at the thankless task. So you'll see less spinning from the Quakers than from the Crimson, but more plays on a direct pass from center...