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...long term at New Haven. Kiphuth produced dozens of topflight swimmers, and many were record breakers. Among them: Alan Ford, John Marshall, Jim McLane and Rex Aubrey in freestyle events. Allen Stack, Junie House and Dick Thoman in the backstroke. Tim Jecko in the butterfly...
...lives would be most affected knew nothing about it, there was Dig news for babies this week. Clattering off the presses was a revised version of the gospel by which half a U.S. generation has been raised: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, by Pediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $5; Pocket Books, 50?). To the original edition, which has sold more than 9,000,000 copies since 1946, Author Spock has added some 100 pages. The gist of his revisions and additions reflects the changing climate of the past decade: parents ought to be more...
Last week McLane said that he is still paying off purchasing agents. Says he: "I'll give names, dates, places-and amounts I'm paying off-to any official investigator or prosecutor trying to clean up U.S. purchasing agencies in Europe. I'm a businessman first, last and always; and to get business, I sometimes have to pay off." But the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, which had the PX payoff problem dumped in its lap last year, has not asked him for new evidence. Though the PX thinks bribe-taking is about cleaned up, C.I.D...
Gentleman's Gentleman. McLane has no qualms over his past, no worries about the present. He expects to gross $11 million this year, has already pocketed large profits from the $50 million worth of Dutch goods that he has sold to U.S. armed forces. "No kidding," says he, "the first million is the hardest." After his fast exit from Germany he bought a mansion at Waterloo, Belgium, lives there with his wife and three children. To upgrade his social position, he joined Belgium's Royal Jockey Club, built up a stable of 35 thoroughbreds. From the owners...
...McLane's favorite hobby is still making money. With his Europe-wide distribution system he plans to introduce U.S. frozen foods and prepackaged meat, introduce U.S. advertising and merchandising methods. If such methods fail to bring in profits fast enough, McLane has plenty of other ideas. Says he: "I'll do business either way, straight or otherwise...