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Handsome Profit. For Del Webb, who holds 46% of Webb Corp. stock, prosperity was slow in coming. Born in Fresno, Calif., he quit high school, became a bush-league pitcher until typhoid fever knocked him off the mound. Webb moved to Phoenix on doctor's orders, took up carpentry. Not until he was in his 405 did Webb get his big opportunity. He formed his own construction company, grew rich during World War II building military bases. After the war, Webb kept right on winning Government contracts, also moved into a variety of civilian enterprises, bought a share...
...trip to the Sugar Bowl, probably against top-ranked Alabama. Fifth-ranked Texas, which beat Texas A.&M. 25-0, is headed for the Cotton Bowl, most likely against sixth-ranked Mississippi, idle last week. And, though the big bowl games are a month off, undefeated Fresno State beat Bowling Green 36-6 in Los Angeles' Mercy Bowl, which aims to raise money for the families of 16 players killed in last year's crash of a plane carrying the Cal Poly football team...
Edwin M. Hamlin '63, of Winthrop House and Fresno, Calif., was named yesterday captain of next year's varsity cross country squad. Hamlin holds the Harvard Franklin Park record of 25:12 over the five-mile course and freshman record of 4:15:3 in the mile. Hamlin was freshman cross country and track captain, and will succeed retiring captain Mark H. Mullin '62.EDWIN M. HAMLIN...
...Fresno, Calif...
Chunky Fan Dale Blasingame, 49, a moderately successful grape broker, glanced around the stands at Fresno, Calif.'s Roosevelt High one day last spring and grinned happily. Scattered among the gum-chewing, chattering teenagers were 30 older but equally familiar figures. To Dale Blasingame, those men meant money in the bank. Every one was a major league scout, and every one was sizing up Dale's 6-ft. 2-in., 185-lb., 17year-old son Wade. "I'm in the business of analyzing values," says Blasingame, "and I had a good idea of what the market...