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Four Letters. Advertising Manager Richard Pfar, 21, explained their choice of the call letters WKGR: they had gone over a listing of U.S. stations and picked four letters that didn't conflict with any others. Program Director Floyd Coil, 18, and Business Manager Curt Scheiderer, 22, added that they had thought all you had to do to start a business in the U.S. was start...
Coach Poley Guyda will field practically the same starting lineup he used against M.I.T. But he is still looking for scoring punch at center forward and will probably start Stan Loeb in Curt Pollak's position. Loeb has been a substitution at left wing for Steve Joyce, who is high scorer on the team with four goals...
...National League, Philadelphia's Whiz Kids had seemed set to win in a downhill glide. On Sept. 19 they were 7½ games ahead of the Boston Braves, nine games ahead of the third-place Brooklyn Dodgers. Then things began to happen. Bereft of star Southpaw Curt Simmons, who had been called up by the National Guard (TIME, Aug. 7), the Phillie pitching staff fell apart at the seams. At the same moment, the hitters stopped hitting, and the infielders began booting ground balls. The Phillies lost eight of their next eleven games...
...While Curt Simmons sped to Shibe Park with a special ten-day pass, approved by the Department of Defense, the general continued, "it is gratifying to be able to take this course of action to encourage the ball team during the World Series...
Simmons will pitch batting practice. Sawyer last night rejected Commissioner A. B. Chandler's kindly offer to waive the 25-man limit and let the left-hander participate in the series. Curt now has not pitched in exactly one month...