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...Rhodes scholar, at Oxford's Christ Church College-where he developed a taste, which he still indulges, for Savile Row suits and old port. After a brief turn as a Kansas City lawyer, he went into Government service in 1938, as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings. During World War II, he helped select German economic targets for air raids and sabotage, as chief of the Economic Warfare Division of the U.S. embassy in London...
...last week, as he has all season, Yankee Outfielder Maris knew just where to direct his sullen anger: at a baseball. Leaning into a low fastball thrown by Baltimore's Milt Pappas, Maris sent a whistling drive soaring high into the rightfield seats. It was his 59th homer in 154 games; he had come within one heart-stopping wallop of tying baseball's most dramatic and cherished record: the 60 home runs hit by George Herman Ruth in 1927 (seven years before Maris was born...
Other steel chiefs echoed Blough's theme. Chairman Arthur B. Homer of Bethlehem Steel, the second biggest producer, wrote the President that steelmen cannot avoid a price upcreep if "other forces contributing to inflation"-meaning the rising price of labor-"are allowed to go unchecked." President Thomas F. Patton of third-ranking Republic Steel wrote: "Your advisers seek to justify the freezing of current steel prices, regardless of inequities to our company. We are asked, in effect, to substitute their personal judgment for the known efficiency and fairness of the competitive marketplaces. This we cannot do." Said Chairman Avery...
...with Service. The cut-rate operators have learned that, as Cincinnati Discounter Homer Brown says, "you've got to offer something besides lower prices." What they are promising is better service, though volume is still their stock in trade, and they sometimes seemed to be offering 25% off for rudeness. Big discounters such as the East's E. J. Korvette, Inc., New York's Friendly Frost chain, and Chicago-based Goodman's Community Discount Stores are opening new branches with piped-in music and fancier displays to shuck off "that warehouse look," adding such customer lures...
...need of bras. Their wan look might have been due to their frugal lunch: beef broth, casaba melon. Duskin snapped them awake: "I don't allow irrelevant statements. Your comments must either advance my thought or contradict it." Firmly in control, Duskin hammered his theme-the dispassion of Homer. "Remember," he said, "Helen makes it in the end. She falls back on Menelaus, and they raise her kid, and even though she's the most beautiful chick in the world, everything's cool...