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...Probably the biggest privately owned egg and poultry business in the U.S. is run by tall, large-boned, greying Hobart Creighton, 46, of Warsaw, Ind. Unable to raise hogs successfully, Eggman Creighton started with chickens 18 years ago. He owned 38 acres of land and some equipment. His brother Russell, 40, had $1,500 cash. They bought 1,200 hens. Today they have 60,000 pullets and hens, occupy 1,400 acres, employ 55 people, are capitalized at $250,000, produce 30,000 eggs a day, ten million eggs a year, get premium prices. Last year they grossed...
...season has produced some tough competitors: Creighton University's Blue-jays, defeated only once in 19 games; Western Kentucky State's Hilltoppers, defeated only twice in 25; the quintets of Notre Dame, Wyoming, Kansas, Toledo, Rice, St. John's of Brooklyn, and little Pepperdine College of Los Angeles, whose sharpshooters recently handed the University of Southern California its first defeat in 16 games. If they had not decided to pass up the N.C.A.A. tournament because it would keep them too long away from their books, the favorites for the national championship would have been the University...
Another story was told by the famed team of little Creighton University, a Jesuit school in the heart of Omaha, which always produces formidable basketball teams. Creighton's 42-year-old Coach Eddie Hickey has chalked up a percentage of .669 during his ten-year term, but last week, in the Chicago Stadium, Hickey's sharpshooters got their first defeat of the season from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets (their supersquad includes twelve onetime college stars...
Rupp's chief Southern rival is Ed Diddle, coach at Western Kentucky State Teachers College. Though playing in a much slower league, Diddle's Hilltoppers last year reached the final of the National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden, defeating among others mighty Creighton and the College of the City of New York. In 20 seasons Diddle's teams have won 262 games, lost...
...Great Malarkey in person is jumpy, pink-cheeked, prematurely white-haired Radio Actor John Griggs, renowned in the trade for his huge professional calling cards which display old-style Police Gazette engravings and the information: "John Griggs, accurate, conscientious, and, if necessary, inspired." Griggs also plays Father Creighton in the NBC serial The Crazy Creightons (TIME...