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...this internecine gamesmanship, Detroit's basic message is that the two biggest automakers confidently expect two back-to-back years of more than 6,000,000 sales. Only once before, in 1959-60, has that been achieved. Auto stocks went up last week on Wall Street, helping to lift the Dow-Jones industrial average. It closed the week at 613.74, thus finally recovering all the ground lost since the hectic morning of Blue Monday...
...Roger Maris, 27, who outpoled Teammate Mickey Mantle in home runs, 61-54, during this year's race with the Ruthian record, last week outpolled him among the baseball press, 202-198, to become the American League's most valuable player for the second consecutive year (previous back-to-back winners: Jimmy Foxx, Hal Newhouser, Yogi Berra and Mantle...
...treasuries, the first-and third-place teams fight it out for a place in the playoffs. The second-and fourth-place teams skate through the same routine. Thus, while the third-place Black Hawks disgraced the first-place Canadiens by beating them four games out of six, including unprecedented back-to-back 3-0 shutouts, the lowly, fourth-place Red Wings swept four straight (after dropping the opener) from the Maple Leafs. But the pair of upsets were no flukes...
Although opinion favors Yale in both relays, the Bulldogs will have a lot of trouble scoring back-to-back wins. The Yalies must save Stack for the climactic mile relay, and the Crimson combination of Harry Rich. Gus Schumacher, Mullin, and Fred Howard should be able to whip the left-overs in the two-mile...
Harvard will be relieved of its back-to-back trips to Cornell and Columbia every other year...