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...Mystery. After the sky-stabbing record flight last week, four Xis pilots -White. Walker, North American's Scott Crossfield and Navy Commander Forrest Petersen-journeyed to Washington, where President Kennedy gave them the Robert J. Collier Trophy, presented annually since 1911 for outstanding achievement in flight. But for White and his fellow X-15 pilots, the greatest reward for their work is the satisfaction of probing the mysteries inside the sky. In last week's flight Bob White found a new mystery for scientists to puzzle over: through the X-15's thick left quartz window...
...father (Don Collier) is just an ordinary joe who owns a fishing boat in a Florida backwater and knows Mantle & Maris about as well as he knows Dun & Bradstreet. The boy, a lovable little liar called Hutch (Bryan Russell), is a utility outfielder in the Little League, and he hasn't yet learned that a small lie usually leads to a big lie: "Sure, I'll get Man'le an' Maris t' come ta the Little League banquit...
...least partly Erpf's urge to educate at a profit that led him to invest in the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. after it dropped Collier's Magazine in 1956. In the five years since, Crowell-Collier has gone from losses to profits ($4,000,000 last year), and currently Erpf and his investing partners are adding new companies to Collier's at a two-a-year clip. Last week, for well under $1,000,000, Crowell-Collier bought New York's famed Bren-tano bookstore chain, which, like all conventional booksellers, has been hard...
...fits in with his dream of "changing publishing into a modern corporate enterprise to bring education to the masses." If his dream is realized, predicts Erpf, "we'll have a renaissance here that will make the Italian Renaissance look like a pond next to the ocean-and Crowell-Collier could become more interesting to investors than U.S. Steel...
This week, with his usual mixture of motives, Erpf will head for London bent on 1) buying some new drawings and 2) finding publishers who might be interested in an alliance with Crowell-Collier. Says he: "The passing show has a lot of elements of interest-and you might as well be aware of them all. Otherwise you don't get the full spectrum of experience, enjoyment and ecstasy...