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...shoes," a reference to the city's shoe manufacturing complex, and announced that he had appointed the St. Louis Cardinals' retired Star Stan Musial to be the new director of the President's Council on Physical Fitness. Musial, 43, succeeds Oklahoma Football Coach Charles B. ("Bud") Wilkinson, who resigned to run for the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma as a Republican...
...third period took up where the second had left off. At 0:49 Adams, parked in front of Sweitzer, slapped in Brian Wilkinson's centering pass to give the Knights a 3-2 edge...
Texas Talk. An All-America quarterback in 1949 under Bud Wilkinson at Oklahoma, Royal arrived at Texas in 1957 under somewhat harrowing circumstances. The year before, the team lost nine out of ten games, and his predecessor was hanged in effigy three times. But Royal talked a Texas game. "We'll hit," he promised. "We'll find us some guys around here who want to dance every dance. We'll do some bloodletting." And he made good the brags. He scoured the state's 1,000 high schools for rugged, rangy youngsters, drilled them endlessly...
...Language of Money. The newly aroused British could teach even the hardselling U.S. trader a trick or two. One steel-products maker, Brockhouse Trading Facilities, found that its export manager, Reg Parkes, had been an R.A.F. pilot, bought him a small plane for calling on Continental customers. Wilkinson Sword Ltd., the blademaker, now treats the British market simply as part of Europe, and salesmen travel to Milan or Hamburg as casually as to Glasgow...
Even more remarkable was James Wilkinson, an adventurer who became political boss of Kentucky and eventually the U.S. Army, while taking huge sums in bribes from the Spanish, the English, the French and home-grown land speculators...