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...boys," who went to the Rose Bowl and won. In those days, West Coasters brazenly mentioned him in the same breath with the great Sammy Baugh, prince of passers. But Frankie joined the Navy, got married, and didn't fool much with football until two years ago. Now he is firing his left-handed passes as accurately as the great right-handed Sammy. So far this season, Albert has completed 108 passes in 180 attempts, an average of .600. Average gain: 12.98 yards. Only five of his passes have been intercepted...
...Race. Most listeners had lately found a new maturity and depth-if not yet real warmth-in the playing of Vladimir Horowitz, the sallow, thin-faced Russian who first astounded the U.S. 20 years ago with his mastery of piano technique...
...Four nights after the killing, Reporter Link interviewed Peter Petrakos, an intimate of Bernie Shelton, in a Peoria hotel room. Also present were "Big Earl" Shelton and two of his henchmen. Earl was anxious to know who had killed Bernie and Carl (who had been murdered a year ago), and whether his number was up too. Link and the Post-Dispatch had a bigger interest in the case: they wanted to find out if Illinois gamblers had killed Bernie and if they had connections with Governor Green's machine...
...moody genius who had made his raucous New York Daily News the biggest U.S. newspaper, said that the suburbs of New York City wouldn't go for a tabloid "home paper." But daughter Alicia Patterson Guggenheim had the stubborn streak of all the Medill clan. Eight years ago, in a drafty garage at Hempstead, L.I., she started the tabloid Newsday, to prove her father wrong...
...Famed Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, vice president of the University of Illinois, has been experimenting for a dozen years or so with a hormone called enterogastrone, found in normal small intestines of men and animals. Finding that the hormone cured ulcers in animals, he began using it five years ago on human beings...