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Died. Willie ("The Wisp") Galimore, 29, star halfback of the Chicago Bears pro football team, who averaged 4.45 yards per carry over six seasons and in 1957 tied a Bears record of four touchdowns in a single game; in an auto accident that also killed Bears End John Farrington, 28, when their Volkswagen flipped as they raced to beat an eleven o'clock curfew at training camp; in Rensselaer...
Snead, who would rather catch a marlin than lick Ben Hogan, says that going after blacks is "like hunting elephants." Another expert big game fisherman, S. Kip Farrington Jr., calls the black "the glamour boy of all fishes-and the most difficult to catch." Farrington should know: he once held the world record (a 1,135-pounder), and he has also spent 94 consecutive fishing days without boating a single marlin...
PHILIP J. FARRINGTON...
Ranking immediately behind Dancer in money earnings in 1962 were Bill Haughton, 39, George Sholty, 30, Del Insko, 31, and John Chapman, 34. The national race-winning driver, in 1961 and 1962, was Bob Farrington, 33. New England's champion is Tug Boyd, 26. Chicago's leader in 1962 was Gene Riegle...
...their peaks, such stocks as IBM. Texas Instruments. Xerox and Hewlett-Packard climbed to anywhere from 80 to 120 times earnings. Raskob was a piker. Some companies such as Itek and Farrington became glamour stocks even while they were still operating in the red. And as investors became more and more intoxicated by growth, the inflation in price-earnings ratios spread across the board, from speculative risks to the conservative blue chips. Such companies as General Electric. Johns-Manville and International Paper saw their stock prices rise even though their per share earnings failed to increase-or even declined...