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...many bowling centers have been started that Brunswick and AMF, which between them manufacture almost all of the nation's automatic pin setters, are now feeling the pinch. While the bowling boom of the late 1950s helped triple Brunswick's sales to $422.3 million in 1961, and helped double AMF's sales to $516.5 million, sales have fallen off this year. So has the value of their stocks, long favorites of Wall Street, which are now down to less than one-third of their 1961 highs...
...year, William Morris, one of Estes' Neiman-Marcus trio, wrote Estes a letter suggesting that Andersen, a member of the House subcommittee on agricultural appropriations, would be a "good Republican contact" in Congress, and that it might be a "good investment" to help him out of a financial pinch. Shortly afterward, Morris took Andersen down to Pecos to talk to Estes...
Shepard has nominated righthand Disk Garibaldi (4-0) to start against Eagles, last year's champions. Garibaldi pitched six good innings against. Dartmouth Wednesday before being for a pinch-hitter. Al Yarbro, his , suffered the loss...
Paced by two grand-slam home runs by Mike ("The Man") Lottman and the no-hit pitching of Joe ("Cowboy" Russin) and Steve ("The Arm") Roberts, the CRIMSON exploded with 37 hits after two out in the ninth. Pinch-hitter Steve Rogers scored the deciding twenty-third run, stealing second, third, and home in one play with a dazzling display of base-path wizardry. Tocsin's two runs came in the fourth when Joe ("Wild Man") Russin walked five in succession...
...Crimson's hard-working batsmen collected 17 hits before the last Springfield pinch-hitter finally struck out to end the game...