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Thomas is the exception which proves the rule that the top man on a squash ladder is usually the best all-around player. He stands alone, unchallenged, with only one loss. But he isn't a smooth, poised player like Captain Pete Milton or third place Martin Hockshire. He lacks the finesse of Milton's stroke and the sharp court tactics of Hockshire. Corey explains the dilemma with "he's a fighter, with terrific power, the kind of guy who never lots...
...Down the ladder, tennis player turned squash, and there's the "D" team. Both Brooks Harris and Roger Cortesi starred at schoolboy tennis, along with Art Ellison and Carl Brandt, who rated an enthusiastic "very fine" from Wynn. Lee Folger rounds out the seconds; he's new to squash, but "coming fast," according to the coach...
Francis P. Whitehair wanted to be Secretary of the Navy. Last week he made it. The last step on his Jacob's ladder was a disappearing letter of resignation...
...Erskine wanted to install a new accounting system in EMF; Vance objected that it wouldn't work. He half expected to be fired. Instead, when Erskine became president, he made Vance assistant treasurer. Vance moved to South Bend in 1919, slowly worked up every rung of the Studebaker ladder. By the time depression struck, he was production vice president and a director, while Paul Hoffman, now president of the Ford Foundation, was vice president in charge of sales...
...Yardling ladder, Lanny Thomas, won his first, fourth and fifth games, but dropped the middle pair, for a 3 to 2 tally. Pete Milton, playing second man, lost only his second game, with a 3 to 1 score, and Ham Graven won all his games. Martin Heckschire and Art Ellison did not play...