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...Lions' success, according to Crimson line coach Ted Schmitt, who scouted the game, were a pair of tackles who went 60 minutes both ways in the New York heat. To do that in these days of two-platoon football-calls for a great deal of desire on the part of the players. Can even such a master of football psychology as Lou Little bring his team up to such a pitch for two straight Saturdays...
...Platoon. Last week it looked as if rven Lew Rosenstiel thought it time for a pick-me-up. At 61, he stepped out as president of Schenley (but stayed as chairman), and elevated a whole platoon of young Schenley reserves. Into the presidency went Ralph Taft Heymsfeld, 44, a Columbia-trained lawyer who joined the company 18 years ago and has specialized, as secretary and counsel, in fighting for fair trade and against high liquor taxes. Up to executive vice president stepped Treasurer Sidney Becker, 42, who started with Schenley during Prohibition...
...work and storing breakfast food--eagerly pressed into the hands of the climbers by an enterprising cereal manufacturer--in the living room of the unhappy mother of one of the expedition's members. The expedition moves through the intricacies of Peruvian Customs, through dysentary, polluted drinking water, and a platoon of shifty-eyed mule skinners, solicitously endeavoring to part Los Alpinistos from their money...
Because Saturday's millions would rather roar over touchdowns than goal-line stands, "defense is something of a stepchild in today's football." Present rules give the offense a slight edge over the defense, and the two-platoon system also makes the offense relatively stronger...
Siberia & Bunker Hill. The Marines had no chance to get rusty, as General Selden had feared they might. The Chinese Reds began a "creeping war" against their positions. Fortnight ago a beefed-up Chinese platoon attacked a small Marine force on "Siberia," an insignificant hill about four miles east of Panmunjom. In 26 hours Siberia changed hands nine times. When the enemy took it for the fifth time and showed signs of holding on, the U.S. position looked untenable. For two days, Marine artillery and planes raked Siberia. Then, early last week, the Marines occupied "Bunker Hill," which is higher...