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...Quaker Cadbury, a publisher without a peerage, leaves its operations to a devoutly Liberal triumvirate: Sir Walter Layton, quondam Cambridge don who once edited the Economist; pedantic, competent Editor (since 1936) Gerald Barry, a Saturday Review alumnus, and tack-sharp Robin J. Cruikshank, 47, a big, curly-haired six-footer who is regarded the top newspaperman...
Burchfield, a six-footer, looks like a well-dressed, grey-haired businessman who has pleasant secrets of his own, but he is wistful and diffident. He likes to talk about his work, and talks well...
...Desci, another more-than-six-footer, will handle the center spot with some assistance from Gantt. Despite his height, Desci has looked fast and tricky under the boards in pre-season practice...
...trick of the week. It went into production of a brand-new commercial product: an aluminum canoe. Designed by President Leroy Grumman, who turned out the Navy's Wildcat and Hellcat fighter planes, the canoe weighs one-half to two-thirds as much as wooden canoes. A 13-footer weighs only 38 pounds, yet the thin skin is tough enough to deflect anything up to a bullet. When capsized, the canoe automatically rights itself in the water with the help of air tanks in the bow and stern. Grumman is now turning out the first order...
Nelson, who can play championship golf with an ax handle when he's hot, came to life next day in the match play battle at New Jersey's Essex County course. He sank a 35-footer, outdrove hard-slamming Sambo. Snead's putting meanwhile went from poor to punk, ended in a nose dive on the water-soaked greens. Nelson, six-up at the 13th, closed it out at the 33rd with the score four-and-three. That left the unofficial championship just about where it was in the first place. With a win apiece, Nelson...