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Centers: Bill Barnes, Sheldon Dietz, Tom Grover, Bill Harrison, John O'Neil, Bill LaCroix, Charles Putnam...
Burgey Ayres has a strangle hold on the pivot job and should develop into a standout center after the important experience he gained in 1939. Ted Lyman and Tom Grover will be held in reserve. Flanking Ayres will be a pair of rugged Juniors, Dick Pfister and Chub Peabody, who progressed by leaps and bounds as Sophomores and in spring practice. They are beginning to get the hang of complicated cross-blocking assignments and should take greater strides toward stardom this fall. Joel Ferris, Jim Grunig, and Sophomore Sharpe are an average group of guard subs...
...popular and publicity success, the New York World's Fair of 1939 was a financial flop. By midseason, exhibitors and merchants holding $28,000,000 of its 4% debentures had forced out overconfident Grover Whalen, put Banker Harvey Dow Gibson (Manufacturers Trust Co.) in charge of the books. In September, to help the Fair pay its bills, bondholders had to sacrifice their 40% lien on the gate receipts. During 1939, the bonds dropped from...
...give Dick Harlow capable guard play, and Russ Standard, another Sophomore, is not far behind them. Jim Aldrich, Joel Ferris, and Jim Gruning round out the guard squad. Burgy Ayres has a strong hold on the pivot position, but Art Page, up from the Freshmen, and veteran Tom Grover are not out of the fight. Former Jayvees John Dimeff and "Lone Star" Dietz are other possibilities...
...rates down, Grover Loening had a plan which he had set forth in bookkeeping detail in his brief to CAA. First step to air-express service, said he, is air-express planes: efficient freight-luggers built without the doodads of passenger craft, thus capable of carrying a bigger payload on the same horsepower. Airline men gasped when he first said that 345 8-ton airplanes could carry all the express now handled by the railroads, gulped when he figured out for them that a fat profit could be made at rates 1½% times rail rates. Urged by Loening...