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Given the title of editor, he set out with Sir William's help to clean house, put a stop to Reuters' indirect Government subsidies, step up its service, pep up its staff and its 2,000 correspondents...
...Courtlandt Sherrington Gross, 41, younger brother and Lockheed's $60,750-a-year vice president and general manager. Lockheed's executives got their strategy and pep talks from Bob Gross, their tactics from Court...
...Russians last week staged a boosters' get-together. At Karlshorst, some 40 German administrators of Germany's Russian zone discussed progress and problems with 30 Soviet colleagues. There were three days of dinners, concerts, ballets and pep-talks. With Babbittical zeal, Marshal Georgi Zhukov strove to show the delegates that theirs was the greatest little zone in all of Germany. Said he: ". . . Our zone will, by virtue of its own achievements . . . command respect and assume a position of leadership...
Facts & Futures. Earl Blaik has a fidgety stomach. Florid press notices about his team-and they are a steady diet again this year-give it the growls. No advocate of die-for-the-old-school pep talks, Blaik has only one antidote for incipient overconfidence: he preaches cold facts, chalks out in black & white how an inferior team can whip a mightier one that makes a few mistakes...
There were two key plays in Manager Steve's pennant drive. Last spring, he wangled Roy Cullenbine from Cleveland, laid it on the line in a single pep talk and got him squared away to the business of banging 17 homers (third highest in the league) and batting in 89 runs (second highest). And O'Neill had long since named his trump card by plucking veteran Catcher Paul Richards from the minors to handle Pitchers Newhouser and Trout (40 victories this year, a record 56 last year...