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...thing about the Eagles' Quarter back Herb Apfel -he's consistent. May be too consistent. Trailing 7-3 last week, with a first down on his own 45-yd. line and only three minutes left, he called four quick sideline passes in a row. An alert Sentinel defense stopped them all; the Eagles had to give up the ball, and with it the championship...
Quarterback Apfel, a 27-year-old accountant for SONY, put in some six hours a week battling 19 other Brooklyn opponents. But nothing he came up against prepared him for the New Haven Sentinels' captain, who had grown sharp in a 14-team league composed of mathematicians, computer programmers and systems analysts employed by the Southern New England Telephone Co. in New Haven...
When he tried an end run round his strong side, the Sentinels called for a blitz by a linebacker and a corner back. A quick opener found the Sentinels up tight; a circle pass was blocked by Sentinels backs waiting in a classic pass defense. The best Apfel could manage was a field goal from the Sentinels' 25-yd. line. It was the kind of a day a quarterback, even if he's only an accountant, longs to forget...
...Angeles' Dr. Harland Apfel has tried six homotransplants (person to person), and all have failed. But he has done 350 autotransplants (with the patients' own teeth), and 97% are now successful. Homotransplants of teeth, with long-term success, will have to await the finding of safer and more effective drugs or new techniques to check the rejection process...
...steamers last week, two tenuous theories went up in smoke. Neither Japs nor Reds could be blamed for the plague of nitrate-ship fires (TIME, April 2) after Chile's cocky counter-espionage Departamento 50 nabbed the chief saboteur, a German named Julio Alberto von Appen Oestmann (alias Apfel), and turned him over for shipment...