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Many a good Texan agreed with Columnist Wes Izzard of the Amarillo Daily News: "No bunch of smut merchants can hurt Texas . . . They decided to insult somebody to get their magazine back in the limelight . . . Don't play into their hands by buying a copy." But such warnings did little good. When Esquire hit the stands, Texans flocked...
...When Michigan's Arthur Summerfield becomes Postmaster General next month, he will resign as Republican national chairman. Last week most of the G.O.P. speculation about Summerfield's successor was beamed toward one man: lean, relaxed Charles Wesley (Wes) Roberts, 48. Roberts was working on his family's weekly Oskaloosa Independent (circ. 1,400) when he plunged into Republican politics in 1936. With time out for a World War II stint in the Marines, he served the Kansas G.O.P. and its state administrations in various jobs until 1950, when he got out of active politics to start...
...this, Rose mockingly turned the other cheek. Said he: "Let's make everybody happy. I fully concede that Eleanor is the finest woman since Florence Nightingale; that Wes Bernie is a road-company Joan of Arc; that Louis Nizer, Eleanor's attorney, is president of the Sweet Fellows Club; that Alberta Jones has astigmatism, and it must have been three other people. And finally that Billy Rose has horns and hooves and ought to be ground up for hamburger...
...Skinny (6 ft. 1 in., 145 Ibs.) Wes Santee's 1,500-meter time, 3:49.3, half a second faster than the 1948 winning Olympic time...
...Drake Relays offered some consolation to America's Olympic mile hopes. The University of Kansas four-mile relay team set a U.S. college record (17:15.9). In the process, the team's flying anchor man, Sophomore Wes Santee, turned in a spectacular (but unofficial) 4:07.5 mile. Next day, as if to prove it was no accident, Santee did it again, ran his mile .1 sec. faster to help his distance medley (440, 880, ¾ mi., mile) team set a meet record. The question, Gehrmann and Wilt to one side: Could Santee have beaten Johansson, rain or shine...