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...Freight Handler ; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders...
...freight-handlers at Frankfurt Rhein-Main airport, it was just another box-a little on the heavy side, to be sure, but nothing out of the ordinary. They heaved it onto a hand-truck and dumped it in the storeroom. Shortly after midnight, strange things began to happen. A freight-handler saw the box move. Its lid lifted slowly and startled eyes glinted in the gloom. American Overseas Airlines Official William Waring investigated. "I opened the box," he told reporters later, "and saw a pair of eyes and some hair. Then she stepped out-no shirt...
Year after year, Gordon Richards was a big winner, earning up to $120,000 a season. He got extra speed out of a horse by breaking fast from the post and being a master horse-handler all the way to the finish line. Unlike U.S. jockeys, who perch crablike on a horse's withers. Richards sits his horse with longer stirrups. When he uses the whip, which is seldom, he lays it on the horse near the shoulder, as English riders do. Last week, at 43, he won his 3,261st race, and that made him officially the world...
...this set-up, of course, the quarterback is the most important operator. Odell's quarterback will fake, spin and fade directly to his rear as opposed to the more usual "T" ball-handler, who will step off to the right behind his guards and tackles...
Three men will alternate in the two guard posts: Sol Mariaschin, Steve Davis, and former football end, Paul Champion. Mariaschin, smallest of the probable starters at 5 feet, 9 inches, is the team's number one ball-handler and dribbler, while Champion, if he can work into shape on time, will make good use of his height...