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...outdid even the Rangers' fondest hopes. Lean-jawed, strapping McCartan (6 ft. 1 in., 200 lbs.) stopped Howe eight more times ("The other times he let go from about 20 to 30 feet, and I had it all the way"), helped the last-place Rangers beat Detroit...
...five futuristic representations above open a CRIMSON series on Radcliffe's next president. Whitney Darrow, Jr., known for his New Yorker cartoons, outdid himself (and the other cartoonists who will follow) by producing five separate visions of the future standard-bearer of Harvard's skirt...
Felipe Alou, 23, went to the San Francisco Giants as a slick fielder but an unproven hitter. This season the graceful right-handed hitter from the Dominican Republic actually outdid the incomparable Willie Mays in the early going, hit a fat .377, slugged four homers in his first 13 games. Says Alou happily: "I learn how to snap...
...black, and it has since come to soothe Publisher Bonnier's nerves as the largest paper in all Scandinavia (circ. 370,000). Expressen is hale because it is hearty. Its formula: a smorgasbord of culture and sensationalism enlivened by flashy picture play and bellowing headlines. Last week, Expressen outdid itself, produced 600,000 copies of a 64-page issue, biggest in Scandinavian history...
...Miguel Angel Capriles, 42, Venezuela's biggest publisher, whose morning papers. La Esfera (The Sphere) and tabloid Ultimas Noticias (Latest News), earned a hazardous reputation as two of the few sheets that proved most staunch in defiance of Pérez Jiménez. (The only daily that outdid Capriles' papers was Roman Catholic La Religión, which refused to run a single line on the dictator's "me-or-nobody" election victory.) Publisher Capriles got so deft at smuggling innuendoes past the censor that Security Police Boss Pedro Estrada once bawled...