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Adams' single victory this year hardly tells the story of the team which threw a scare into the ranks of the Deacons last Tuesday. Although slightly weak on pass defense, the Gold Coasters possess a strong forward wall and a high stepping line plunger in Dick McCarthy...
...Plunger. In Los Angeles, Frank Knapp Jr. hired crews to dig for water, drew a blank at 100 ft., dug 90 ft. deeper, now owns an oil well...
...sure enough about it to bet about $10,000 on himself. Almost as big a plunger as he is a talker, brash Bobby says he offered to put the tour on a winner-take-all basis, but that Don couldn't see it. (The Budge version: Budge offered to split the profits 70-30 but Bobby preferred 60-40 because he "doesn't want to put his money where his mouth is.")* "It must be tough for Don," says Bobby sympathetically, "trying to get back...
...following days there was little improvement. As stocks drifted in the holiday doldrums, Wall Streeters wondered if Winchell had not done the Street a favor. He had shaken out many an amateur plunger who had no business playing the market anyway. Such a shaking down, they felt, was what the market needed after its long rise. Most Wall Streeters felt that the bull market still has a long way to go. One seasoned wag quipped: "What I want to know is-what does Charlie McCarthy think...
Sirs: Stephen Higgins & wife are slightly behind the times using a rubber suction plunger for digging clams. In July I went clamming with Frank Hall of Avondale, R.I., who has been using this useful article for the past ten years...