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...captain Bryce Appleton, who won to last year, met his match this year as Terry Robinson (three) dazzled and the gallery with a complete of shots. Twice he baffled with the "Philadelphian," a tricky which the ball ends up going to the back wall. Robinson...
Edmund Norwood Bacon, 54, is a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), thin (160 Ibs.) Philadelphian with sharp blue eyes and an intensely intellectual air that hardly seems the right equipment for moving and shaking a major city. But his total dedication to his special art and to his native town?plus an impressive gift of gab?is changing the look and feel of the town that was once the butt of comedians as the sleepiest city of them...
...underwriting house, which last year placed $2 billion worth of securities. He will be in charge of underwriting, serve as the youngest of the firm's three chief executives (others: Chairman Emil Pattberg Jr., 54, and Executive Committee Chairman Charles Glavin, 53). Tall and greying, Miller is a Philadelphian who went to Princeton. Was he a good student? "Negative," he grins. On the job he gets his greatest satisfaction from advising customers on how and when to raise expansion capital. As he has taken on more responsibility, he has had to give up his favorite diversions...
Last week, one by one, Sonny's chums and associates paraded before the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly in Washington. There was Sam Margolis, a pudgy, pious Philadelphian, who freely admitted his friendship with Blinky Palermo, who, as everyone knows, is a friend of Frankie Carbo, who in turn is nothing less than elite-at least in his line of work...
This is all possible, but hardly likely. For one thing, Philadelphian Bill Humenuk will be getting a chance to secure the starting quarterback job before a home-town crowd, and he will be fired up to the point of explosion. And then, it is hard to imagine Penn beating Harvard under almost any conditions...