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...When Michigan's Arthur Summerfield becomes Postmaster General next month, he will resign as Republican national chairman. Last week most of the G.O.P. speculation about Summerfield's successor was beamed toward one man: lean, relaxed Charles Wesley (Wes) Roberts, 48. Roberts was working on his family's weekly Oskaloosa Independent (circ. 1,400) when he plunged into Republican politics in 1936. With time out for a World War II stint in the Marines, he served the Kansas G.O.P. and its state administrations in various jobs until 1950, when he got out of active politics to start...
...lean and fragile," said the scouting report. "He can't play the kind of football we play in this conference." Samuel Adrian Baugh (rhymes with law) was, indeed, lean (6 ft. 2 in., 175 lbs.), but the rawboned Texan from Sweetwater was far from fragile. What's more, he wanted to play football so badly that he spent hour after hour throwing a ball through a swinging auto tire to learn passing accuracy. The practice paid off. Baugh was an All-America quarterback in 1935 and 1936 and led his Texas Christian teammates to victory in both...
Ulen's pessimism is perhaps justifiable on two grounds. First, most squads will be "up" for the Crimson. Secondly, the Crimson sadly lacks depth. "That's always been a trouble of ours--we've been lean. When we swim Yale, they have a bench full of guys in Blue uniforms streching from one end of the pool to the other. Our squad looks pretty small...
...Yellow Sky, is sadly disillusioned when his longtime antagonist, the town marshal (Robert Preston), brings home a bride. Confronted with an unfamiliar atmosphere of respectability, Scratchy resignedly throws away his six-shooter and says farewell once & for all to his glorious gun-toting past. In James Agee's lean adaptation and in some peppery performances, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky captures much of Crane's pungent idiom, and becomes a spry blend of gun-in-holster and tongue-in-cheek...
...torrid, jungle-edge Mexican town of Tuxtla Gutierrez, 100 miles from the Guatemalan border, was abustle last week. Sleek sport cars, ranging from burly Mercédès-Benzes and lean Italian Ferraris down to the tiny French Gordini (a Simca-developed racing car), were tuning up for the third annual Pan American border-to-border road race. In addition to the 37 sport-car drivers entered, 64 more were ready to try their luck in a separate division for modified U.S. stock cars. Ahead of the racers lay 1,946 miles of torturous mountain roads and sun-baked...