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...cartoonland, basketball centers are lean and heron-legged, fullbacks loom half a mile high, thoroughbreds trade wisecracks with their jockeys on the drive to the wire. More startling, his situations may be parodies of a Keats poem or a Steinbeck novel. A literate wit, plus a newsman's flair for capsuling the essence of a story, is the mark of Sports Cartoonist Willard Harlan Mullin, 55, of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram and Sun (circ...
What were the airmen doing in the mountains? Late in July a seven-man team from the U.S.A.F. School of Aviation Medicine reached the rock-strewn slopes and box canyons of Colorado's Mt. Evans (14,260 ft.) and there staged some weird exercises. Led by a tall, lean and weathered man in Alpine shoes, long, green wool stockings and climbing knickers, the airmen went on ever-lengthening hikes (from 90 min. to ten hours), ran up and down the steep slopes above timberline, leaped from boulder to boulder. Purpose: Air Force wanted to know whether the human organism...
What are the specifications for a spaceman? Dr. Balke and his crew supplied partial answers: he will be a lean, athletic type (bulging muscles are useless excess baggage), a scientist, and aged 35 to 45-men in this bracket have it over their juniors in greater emotional stability, endurance for tedious tasks, and better judgment as the result of longer training and experience...
...Federal Reserve Board last week demonstrated the kind of fiscal responsibility that Economist Reierson was talking about. Deciding that it was time once again to lean gently against the economic winds. FRB gave the San Francisco Reserve Bank permission to hike its discount rate from 1¾% to 2%, the first such credit-tightening boost in eight months. The other eleven Federal Reserve banks will probably follow suit soon, thus signaling that 1) the Fed agrees that the recession is over, and 2) it is on guard to make certain that the recovery proceeds in a sound, orderly fashion...
Tough Damn Job. From this moment on, Paar is assured, professional, unfaltering. During each station break, after every commercial, whenever he is off camera, he finds a moment to lean over to chat with a guest, give instructions to an assistant director, and check the time schedule. The peering cameras, the prodding teleprompters, the signaling technicians seem not to bother him; he is at home. With Jack Douglas, head writer of his show, whom he puts on as a guest from time to time, he ad libs quickly and surely. With other guests, he is gentle, humble, anxious...