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From Bantam to Pro. In Canada, where hockey precocity is commonplace, Bobby Hull was a stick-out from the day he played his first Bantam League game, in Belleville, at the age of ten. There are seven levels of competition in Canada-Peewees, Bantams, Midgets, Juveniles, Junior B's, Junior A's and Professionals; Hull skipped the Peewees, Midgets and Juveniles. Officially. Actually, confides Pringle, who played against him in the Bantams, Bobby freelanced. When the Bantam game ended, he would tighten up his laces and join a Midget team in the next game. After that was over...
...rampaging Harvard freshman hockey team squashed the midget North-eastern freshmen, 10-1, last Saturday for its sixth straight victory...
With its little 2.2-liter engine, the Porsche 907 is a 270-h.p. midget compared with the seven-liter, 500-h.p. Ford Mark IV prototype that averaged a record 135.4 m.p.h. at Le Mans last year. But it is a muscular midget-durable, exceptionally nimble in the turns, capable of straightaway speeds up to 175 m.p.h. And this year, with prototypes restricted to engines under three liters in displacement, it does not have to try to keep pace with far bigger Fords and Ferraris...
...place quite like Ahmanson's Beverly Hills-based Home S. & L., the nation's largest. Some 775,000 people keep their savings there, and last month Home's assets reached $2.5 billion, making it almost twice the financial size of its nearest competitor. Home was a midget with assets of less than $1,000,000 in 1947 when Ahmanson bought it for $162,000; he was making a shrewd bet that the yet unstarted postwar housing boom would make fortunes for mortgage lenders...
...time he was 13 and a third-former at the Choate School in Wallingford, Conn., Bus was a familiar, fiercely competitive figure in Star-class races on the Sound. He won the Midget championship in 1935 and 1936, moved up to the Juniors in 1937 and took that national title two years later. "It was obvious from the start," says his father, now 70, "that Bus had what it takes to be a great sailor." When he was only 16, Cornelius ("Corny") Shields asked him to sail on his Interna tional Dinghy team-a high honor, indeed, coming from...