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Varsity basketball captain Ed Smith was given honorable mention for Collier's magazine's District All American team. On the first quintet from District 1--New England--were Jim Dilling and Earl Markey of Holy Cross and John Silk of Boston College. Princeton captain Mike Kearns gained honorable mention on the Mid-Atlantic squad, which listed no players from Greater New York...
...Louis was off the presses and in the mail with a story naming L.I.U.'s pantherlike Sherman White, one of the bribetakers, as its "player of the year." Look hastily scratched White's name from its All-America team, chosen by the votes of 430 sportswriters. Collier's rubbed White's name from its own All-America squad in a story already in type...
Died. Joseph Palmer Knapp, 86, chief organizer, chief stockholder, and retired chief executive of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (Collier's; the American Magazine; Woman's Home Companion) and of This Week (circulation of the four: 19,712,000), a pioneer in the evolution of color printing, son of Joseph Fairchild Knapp, founder of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; in Manhattan...
...must navigate, search for ground targets, avoid enemy antiaircraft and watch out for enemy fighters. No pilot has enough hands, eyes and brains to do all these jobs perfectly. Last week the Air Force told how it had teamed up with William P. Lear, winner of the 1950 Collier Trophy for aviation, to take some of the job of flying and fighting the airplane off the jet pilot's neck...
...week before they were abruptly stopped. Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace and his staff had decided, after reading the late war news, to replace the lead article on MacArthur's Korean triumph titled "The Right Man in the Right Place." (About 4,000,000 copies had already been distributed.) Collier's, with a closing five weeks in advance of publication, could not do anything about its issue. To its 3,161,048 readers last week went an issue bearing a full-color cover picture of MacArthur smiling happily at Vice Admiral A. D. Struble over the streamer, "MacArthur...