Word: lew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the credit for Ford's change belongs to one of the new team's least-known members: natty, quiet-spoken Lew Crusoe, 61, production boss. Minnesota-born Crusoe, a onetime forester, rose to become Fisher Body controller for General Motors, quit in 1945 to raise Herefords. A few months later a call from Bendix Aviation's Ernest Breech lured him back from cows to horsepower; when Breech went to fast-slipping Ford the next year, along went Crusoe. Accounting Expert Crusoe supervised the day-today unraveling of the tangled finances left by old Henry, after...
...started. Even the crowd at Long Island's West Side Tennis Club this week figured that Ken Rosewall was a sure loser. He had done well to get to the finals of the U.S. Men's Singles championships, but now he was up against his fellow countryman Lew Hoad. There was too much at stake for Lew to let this one get away. Victory would make him the only man besides Don Budge to make a grand slam of the biggest titles in tennis-Wimbledon, plus the French, Australian and U.S. championships. A $100,000 pro contract would...
...young (21) Australians squared off, and Ken started slowly, losing the first set 6-4. But he wore a curious frown. It could have been dejection; more likely it was wonder. For Lew Hoad's dangerous serve didn't seem so wicked after all, he was far from impressive at the net, and in the tricky wind his overhead game was unbelievably sloppy. All of a sudden Ken Rosewall stumbled on the exciting idea that he might very well...
...drives flicked baseline chalk so often that overworked linesmen seemed to make more errors than he did. He pulled Hoad up with sneaky drop shots. He sent him scurrying toward the baseline after deft lobs that his beefy blond adversary seemed to have forgotten how to handle. He ran Lew Hoad off the slippery green court...
...BARBAROUS COAST, by Ross Moc-donald (247 pp.; Knopf; $2.95), gives motivation and complexity to the stock characters of the hard-guy private-eye school. Detective Lew Archer, moving through the criminal fringe of the Southern California movie world, is just the man to delight fans of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler...