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...prospects. "College football is 10% coaching and 90% recruiting, selling and advertising," admits Kansas' Mitchell. A Kansas boy himself, Mitchell concentrates on landing home-state players, is fast developing the fierce local pride necessary to support a winner. When Kansas only tied Oklahoma this season, 13-13, frustrated Jayhawk fans booed Mitchell -to his vast delight. Mitchell's ready explanation: "It's the first time Kansans have cared enough to gripe...
...have a chance to see Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain in action. The Negro star, all 7 ft. 2 in. of him, is their boy. This was their first chance, since he left Philadelphia's Overbrook High three years ago to see what The Stilt might have learned since Jayhawk recruiters outbid more than 100 schools and sent him to Lawrence, Kans. for some higher education on the court...
...Kansas City, big, hard-driving Kenneth Spencer, whose Spencer Chemical Co. has leased the Government's $20 million Jayhawk Ordnance Works (TIME, June 17, 1946), turned to rain making as a possible stimulant for his dry-ice sales. Spencer hired a crop-service plane, succeeded in bringing showers to Mission, Kans., Excelsior Springs, Mo. This week five farmers from Burlington, Iowa hired the same plane to make rain over their arid 1,500 acres; it made rain all right-over a golf course, leaving their farms still...
Spencer took the job, set up Military Chemical Works, Inc. (with himself as president), pitched in. Jayhawk was completed early in 1943 - 3½ months ahead of schedule, soon was running at 140% of designated capacity...
After the war ended, Military Chemical continued to run Jayhawk, turning out nitrate fertilizer at the rate of 14,500 tons a month for export by the Commodity Credit Corp. But Spencer saw a chance to build up a new business. So with the financial backing of Manhattan's J. H. Whitney & Co., he bought his baby...