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...Kalamazoo, Mich...
...Commissioner Landis called in Dunkley and showed him a desk piled high with wires and letters. Because Dunkley had correctly predicted that the Series would go seven games, readers were complaining that the Series must have been fixed. Reporter Dunkley. who quit school at 14 to cub on the Kalamazoo Gazette, joined the Chicago bureau of the A.P. in 1911, soon moved into a hotel room only one block away so he could be near his work. He has lived there ever since...
...Thanks to a fermentation process in which mold-microbes (captured on a windowsill in Kalamazoo) perform a dozen complicated chemical processes, the Upjohn Co. has boosted production of cortisone and cut its price by 20%. Neck & neck in the same race, Schering Corp. can now get enough cortisone to treat a patient for three weeks from the bile of only two cattle (it used to take...
...leave his work on the golf course, but let his passion for perfection rule his whole existence. His keen eyes noted such minute details as the fact that one knob on a hotel bureau drawer did not match the other. His finicky palate rebelled at restaurant food from Kalamazoo to California; unless a steak was cooked just so, back it would go to the kitchen. Only in his treatment of Valerie, his wife, did he show a gentle side...
That took in a lot of territory, and other U.S. tennis scouts might not be ready to go so far, just yet. Nonetheless, as Ham Richardson raced through the National Junior field at Kalamazoo, Mich., there was plenty to watch. Slim (155 Ibs.), tall (5 ft. 11½ in.), and still growing, Ham had a solid service, a clean, running forehand that took the ball on the rise, Fred Perry fashion, and a flat, whistling backhand (at present, his best stroke), apparently so effortless that his placements with it seemed almost accidental. He could volley and drop-volley with...