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...busiest of these unpaid, unsung legmen, as the Post tells it, are Pressagents Ed Weiner, Curt Weinberg and Irving Hoffman. Weiner is the columnist's "lobbyist, contact-man, straight-man-about-town"; Hoffman is a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter; Weinberg was Singer Josephine Baker's drum beater until the Stork Club incident, then Weinberg hastily dropped her. Also chased from the Winchell closet was another figure that few other ghosts even knew about: Herman Klurfeld, 35, who sticks close to his Long Island home and is paid a reported $250 a week by Winchell for writing...
...avenge the football team's defeat to Princeton, and to better its tie with Yale, in this weekend's triangular meet at King's Point, New York, Commodore of the Crimson team, John Bishop commented last night that its chances were "very good," particularly against Yale. The squad has beater the Elis in every meet this fall...
...Court championship) and last week at Southampton, on grass, the more significant surface (because all top tournaments are played on grass courts). Said Frank Shields, the non-playing Davis Cup captain : "If Trabert progresses as much during the next four weeks, he's going to be a world beater. He whips a cross court shot very much like Don Budge's great shot...
...Drum Beater. U.S. Rubber Co. brought out a collapsible cloth and rubber drum for shipping petroleum, acid and other liquids. Flexible and light (28 lbs., v. 40 to 60 lbs. for the same size steel drum), the drums, when empty, can be shipped back cheaply to the supplier. More than 2,500 folded drums can be shipped in a freight car that can hold only 300 steel containers of the same size...
Clippers & Copters. Igor Sikorsky, now 61, has been working 42 years to win such recognition for the egg beater. He designed his first helicopter in Russia in 1908, but it never got far off the ground. Sikorsky turned to plane design, turned out the first four-engine ship for the Czar's air force in World...