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...races, the fans themselves are the most important statistic. Last week, as the season rounded the late-summer turn, big-league attendance figures testified to one of the tightest stretch drives in years. Fans were piling into Milwaukee's County Stadium at a record 40,000-a-game clip. Cleveland had already surpassed its 1953 home-attendance figure. The Dodgers and Giants set turnstiles spinning whenever they met. The race was so close, a man was hard put to pick a winner...
...Warner Corp.'s Norge Division sat in bed at Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital last week, a telephone at his side and papers spread out in front of him. All morning 54-year-old Judson S. Sayre took calls, received visitors and dictated letters at a rapid clip. At noon, with his neck in a brace, he left the hospital for his office, returned later in the afternoon to finish up his 15-hour workday...
From the start, the two Negroes demonstrated the graceful art of boxing. Johnson jabbed and ran, scored points and moved out of range. In the tenth, Moore forgot himself for a moment, lunged forward and caught a clip on the neck. He was knocked to his knees for a count of five. Unruffled, he kept right on shifting his style, teasing the challenger, waiting for Johnson to make a mistake. Johnson finally obliged. In the 14th, he backed carelessly into a corner. Instantly, Moore moved in. Johnson took a short, straight right to the jaw, spun half around...
Physicists have long known that raindrops-at high speeds-pack a dangerous wallop. But their effect on aircraft remained mainly a theoretical problem until jets started flying at the speed of sound. After passing through rain squalls at a supersonic clip, new jet fighters returned to base peppered with pits and abrasions. U.S. Air Force engineers have now begun to reckon with rain...
SAVINGS BONDS are selling at the fastest clip since the great bond drives of World War II. In the first seven months of 1954, the Treasury sold $2.9 billion in E and H bonds, v. comparable sales of $2.6 billion in 1953, $6.5 billion...