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...Rung Down. Nobody had ever accused Franks, 50, of being that be fore. A roly-poly ex-catcher, he could look back over half a dozen big-league seasons and a lifetime batting average of a minuscule .199. When he coached the Giants in 1959 and 1960, sportswriters gleefully dubbed him "Dumbkopf Franks," and Herman was so mortified that he decided to quit. But last year San Francisco Manager Alvin Dark got himself fired - for telling a newsman that Negroes and Latins are no match for white ballplayers "when it comes to mental alertness." Back came Franks as the Giants...
Using mock-up rooms, he has figured out how small a room can shrink be fore customers will rebel (in low-rate hotels, it can be 71 ft. by 10 ft.). At the New York Hilton, he fitted out a service elevator as a speedy, efficient pantry for Continental breakfasts: one man, instead of the usual three, takes an order on the telephone, warms rolls and pours coffee while the elevator moves, then delivers it to the proper floor. Another Tabler innovation: a strip of black paint in place of black tile on the bottom of closets (saving...
...happened, McGeorge Bundy, 46, was off for two days of discussion and debate with Harvard faculty members and students about the current course of U.S. foreign policy. In recent months, while criticism of that policy has reached a crescendo, particularly in academic circles, Bundy has increasingly come to the fore not only as Johnson's debater but as a chief public articulator of U.S. aims and purposes...
...Kansas City, Athletics Owner Charles O. ("Call Me Charlie") Finley invoked his own brand of voodoo be fore his club took on the Detroit Tigers. Finley 1) rode around the bases on the back of a mule called Charlie O, 2) took possession of five monkeys, a doe, rabbits, pheasants and peafowl donated by admiring fans, and 3) produced a beauty queen to act as bat girl. The Athletics lost anyway...
Overlush & Overplush. More Americans with more spending money have come on down this season than ever be fore, and the tycoons of Miami Beach have been working night and day to give them what they are supposed to want...