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...with a low shoulder, he can send them cartwheeling. Last year Brown smashed 1,527 yds. in twelve games to shatter the league ground-gaining record by a fabulous 381 yds. And even the lowly Los Angeles Rams, at the bottom of the Western Conference, can offer Halfback Ollie Matson, 29, whose stride is rated the most beautiful in football, a smooth flow of power that whisks him through the frantic flurry of broken-field blocks and tackles with deceptive ease. On a team that is going nowhere, Matson has broken loose so often that he averages...
...merely grumbled a few words to the packed auditorium and sat down. Later he called the meeting "a trap," spoke darkly of "leftwing" P.T.A. leaders rigging "Communist-like demonstrations" at other schools. Such old saws cut no ice. What parents clearly preferred was the stand taken by Russell H. Matson, one of the moderate board members: "If we keep on, we can end up with a better school system than we have ever...
Crimson shot putters Henry Abbot, Steve Cohen, and Jim Doty produced a sweep in their event, but Wes Matson of Dartmouth took first over the varsity's Doty and Dune Johnson in the weight throw. Kelvin Kean won the high jump easily, clearing 6 ft., 2 in. but narrowly missing three tries for a new University record...
...Matson is selling out because its Hawaiian investors, who own 42% of the company, are clamoring for the line to concentrate on shipping, sell off its many holdings in the oil, insurance, trucking and hotel fields. Matson's California investors, who own the majority of stock, have agreed to dispose of the hotels but oppose the other sales. Management's split runs so deep that there is talk of liquidating the whole company...
...Sheraton President Ernest Henderson, 61, who has been in a partnership with Chairman Robert Lowell Moore, 62, ever since the two left Harvard ('18), the Matson deal was the biggest of a year in which they have acquired eight hotels. There are now 52 Sheraton hotels, and more are abuilding. Early next year Sheraton will open a $12 million, 561-room hotel in Dallas and a $3,500,000, 190-room unit in Binghamton, N.Y. Due to open later: new Sheratons in Baltimore, New Haven, Conn. and Portland...