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Less than two months, ago, Slick Airways was still just a daydream much like the daydreams of 100,000 other soldier flyers. Unlike most others, this one was backed by 1) plenty of cash and 2) rough-&-ready business savvy. Both were supplied largely by two brothers, dark-haired, studious Thomas Baker Slick Jr., 29, and sandy-haired, easygoing Earl Frates Slick, 25-Money & Ideas. The Slick brothers are sons of famed Tom Slick, "king of the wildcatters," and stepsons of Oilman Charles Urschel* (after Tom Slick died, his partner Urschel married his widow). The brothers were not content...
Chubby, jut-jawed Joe McCarthy's 14-year record with the Yankees is a manager's daydream. "Just let me worry about the club" is one of his favorite remarks, and he has worried his well-heeled, star-studded club to eight American League pennants, seven world championships. This year, although they have stayed within shooting distance of the league-leading Detroit Tigers, the Yankees have generally looked like also-rans...
...roseate daydream, radio's indispensable stock in trade, actually materialized last week. In a new program called Queen for Today (Mutual, 2:30 p.m., E.W.T., Mon.-Fri.), one radio listener got 24 hours of wish fulfillment...
...County Wexford farmer's son, he used to lie on a cliff top in the long grass and gaze south across St. George's Channel to the tiny, haze-blue Saltee Islands. Since his first name was legally Prince, it was easy for a farm boy to daydream: "Some day I'll own those islands and become a real prince." He took to calling the Saltees "Paradise...
...current sentiment had begun when Vag heard the band play "Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind" at the Kirkland House party. He pictured himself in an insular jungle, and it almost seemed that that were real and Harvard the daydream. But he was glad that he was too busy looking forward to the approaching service to let nostalgia get the better...