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Which of Saturday's heroes will be worth a Sunday paycheck? All season long, professional football's talent scouts study college games and run down tips, searching with an unsentimental eye for boys who can play the man's game in the pros. Last week, as they prepared to back their judgment with cash in the annual player draft, the scouts from both pro leagues took time out to compile a dream team of the nation's top prospects. TIME'S pro-picked All-America...
...Budde, 22, Michigan State; 6 ft. 4 in., 247 lbs. Both Cvercko and Budde are fast and maneuverable, equally adept at dropping back to protect a passer or pulling out to run interference for end sweeps. Unlike most college guards, they also have the size to make the pros. "We don't pay much attention to college guards," admits one scout. "Usually, we take tackles and make guards out of them...
FULLBACK: Ray Poage, 22, Texas; 6 ft. 4 in., 205 lbs. Best of a lackluster lot of college fullbacks, Poage probably will be shifted to slotback in the pros: he is too light to run the tackles. Michigan State's George Saimes, 21(5 ft. 10 in., 186 lbs.), is also underweight, but his fierce blocking and tackling will earn him a pro tryout. "Saimes may not have size," says one scout, "but by God he's got guts...
...lost, along with Senator John Bricker and scores of other Republicans. Furious at the costly meddling by amateurs, Bliss called 135 leading Ohio Republicans to a meeting, gave them a three-hour lecture course in practical politics, and laid down an ultimatum: either leave political decisions up to the pros or find a new state chairman. When he finished, the audience broke into cheers. Firmly in charge Bliss began working toward 1960-when
Behind the scenes moves the hotel staff of 500, including 17 bellboys available, night and day, to carry messages across the city by hand, 24 telephone operators, two tennis pros, and one fulltime lifeguard, all dedicated to the proposition that guests are people with names, not just keys. Explains Owner Silberstein: "Every guest wants to be recognized. The ego of man is the same throughout the world. We have to cater to the whims of our guests...