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...their game, as they were never headed. The team was largely composed of recent alumni of "Uncle Bill" Bingham's farm system--such as Wally Flynn, Jack Coppinger, and Leunie Lunder from last year's squad; Barron, Wallace, "Hoss" Hamlen, and Nick Rodis from the '47 team; sole oldster was hockey coach John Chase...
Last week, the R.C.A.F. announced that Air Vice Marshal Kenneth M. Guthrie, an oldster of 49, was retiring from the service. To replace him as boss of the North West Command it named Air Vice Marshal Hugh Lester Campbell...
...Many an oldster still complains that the U.S. has lacked a classic youth's magazine since the death of St. Nicholas (peak circ. 100,000) in 1939 and Youth's Companion (500,000) in 1929. But the best of the late, lamented St. Nick, edited by Historian Henry Steele Commager, will be published this month by Random House...
...four sets, the oldster (27) and the youngster (20) slammed the ball back & forth, with the gallery decidedly pro-Pan-cho. But experience was on Schroeder's side. His overhead was deadly; Pancho's was erratic. The young champ, anxious to show off before the home crowd, tried too hard to make flamboyant returns of Schroeder's big serve. Schroeder won, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, 10-8. When someone suggested to Gonzales that he had been careless with his game at crucial moments, he answered: "But it's got to be careless. That...
...Stooge? Pegler sat down. All the correspondents had agreed to ask only one question apiece. To three others who also put the Gurusome question Wallace snapped: "I never engage in a discussion with a stooge of Westbrook Pegler." Finally a watery-eyed oldster got up. "My name is Mencken, H. L.," he announced. "Will you call me a stooge of Pegler...