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Died. William Levi ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, 79, longtime (1915-52) president-dictator of the powerful A.F.L. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (present membership, 822,000) ; of a heart ailment; in Indianapolis. Starting as a 20?-an-hour carpenter in Midland, Mich., Big Bill soon became a union business agent, in nine years fought his way to the presidency. A bitter, irascible foe of shop-wide unionism (i.e., the C.I.O.), he once traded punches with Fellow Czar John L. Lewis during a stormy A.F.L. convention, backed every Republican presidential candidate from Coolidge to Eisenhower. Last year, having quadrupled his union...
Hoyt, a six foot one inch, 170 pound center half, attended Midland School, near Santa Harbara, Calif., and played soccer there...
...chlorophyll boom is collapsing as suddenly as it began. With anti-enzymes now taking the ad play, chlorophyll-toothpaste sales are slipping. Pillmakers are also cutting back output, as scientific tests blow holes in the manufacturers' first claims. With chlorophyll consumption already off 60%, Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., one of the biggest chlorophyll suppliers, is planning to get out of the business...
Battle of Wits. By the final go 'round last week, it was apparent to the crowd that a four-year-old bay mare named Marion's Girl, a virtual unknown in cutting-horse circles, was the horse to beat. Owned by Rancher Marion Flynt of Midland, Texas, who bought her 18 months ago for $2,000, Marion's Girl took an early lead in points and was never headed...
Rancher Flynt (Square Top 3), who dabbles in oil, baseball (as president of the Midland Indians of the Texas Longhorn League) and rodeos (as president of the Midland Rodeo), is mighty proud of his horse with cow sense. He brags that he wouldn't sell her for all the oil in Texas...