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Toronto and Chicago, it is agreed, will again be the contenders for the regular season title. Chicago led last year until the final two weeks of the season, when the Maple Leafs overtook them to win by one point. Toronto went on to win the Stanley Cup, while the Black Hawks lost in the first round of the Playoffs...
...tall order, mostly because of the scrappy little man who runs the Press from a modern, four-year-old building overlooking Lake Erie. Under Editor Louis Seltzer, 66. the Press overtook the morning Plain Dealer back in 1938 and has clung to its lead. By 1960 the Plain Dealer had cut the lead to a bare 962 copies, but then the Press picked up 80,000 new readers by purchasing the struggling afternoon News. Now the Plain Dealer is gaining once again, and the circulation margin has narrowed from...
...nature of San Francisco newspapering-a situation that Randy's father, the late William Randolph Hearst, helped to create at the turn of the century when he made the Examiner his showcase and it clobbered all comers with its sensationalism. Since 1960. when the Chronicle overtook the Examiner for the first time, Hearst executives have ladled out a small fortune in a stern effort to regain the top spot in the town where the chief got his journalistic start. The job will take some doing. Behind the austere facade of the Chronicle Building at Fifth and Mission, flamboyant Executive...
Later that afternoon, Simpson and a friend, still curious, hopped into Simpson's old black Buick, overtook Moore a few miles down the road. Simpson now insists that he "truthfully felt sorry for the fellow." It was in that sympathetic spirit, he says, that he warned Moore: "You'll never get past Birmingham...
With a fantastic effort, Abramson overtook and passed Thomas, while Engelberg moved up to take third. It was only the second time that Abramson had swum the race in college and his time of 50.5 was the fastest of his career...