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Junior Ben Heckscher is Barnaby's star. As number one man last year he lost only two matches. This season he could easily win them all. The fleet six-footer has smashing shots from anywhere in the court, and his hard service and sharp corner shots are deadly. Barnaby calls him "one of the fastest moving players in the game...
...dusk and raining. Storekeeper Pinney watched Krolik enter. A hefty six-footer, wearing a red-and-green golfer's cap, black T shirt and soft yellow moccasins, Krolik asked for a bottle of whisky -then, as Pinney turned, pulled out his new pistol and ordered: "Give me all the green money." Pinney put his money on the counter. Krolik reached, lowering his pistol slightly. In a flash, ex-Cop Pinney whipped out one of his own revolvers, shot four times. As Krolik fell to the floor without firing back. Pinney observed him "wriggling like he was going...
...might be possible to clear up now some of these practical matters between us." Knock on the U.N. Door. The man sent to investigate was Kansas-born U. (for Ural) Alexis Johnson, 46, an old Far Eastern hand now serving as U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. A husky six-footer, Johnson spent half a year in a Japanese internment camp in Manchuria and last year, at the Indo-China peace conference in Geneva, opened the first round of negotiations for the return of U.S. prisoners. Last week in Geneva Johnson faced an old antagonist: Red China's Wang Ping...
...Francisco? The trick-turner was the change in his putting. Although he once offered up to $1,000 to other pros if they could cure his woes on the green, Fleck suddenly realized early in the Open that "everyone putts his own way." He promptly sank a 22-footer, went on to three sparkling rounds of 30 putts or less...
...Drake, 42, became president of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co., which produces more than 400 different chemicals, had first-half sales this year at an annual rate of more than $60 million and will soon start on a five-year expansion program. A plain-talking six-footer, Drake played football at Bowdoin College, leaving in 1934 to take a summer trainee job with the company. Drake was carefully groomed for the presidency by the man he succeeds, George B. Beitzel, 61, who will continue as a director, devote most of his time to the company's foreign...