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That Taft, to nobody's surprise, is the candidate of the political "pros" was made plain by an informal poll last week of some 65 G.O.P. national committeemen meeting in Washington: 29 for Taft, 12 for Ike, 24 scattered or just not talking...
...sick father. She had put an overdose of narcotics in a hypodermic so that her father's nurse, thinking she was giving a normal dose, would inject it and kill him. Was Dr. Morgan in favor of euthanasia? Said the syndicate: the strip did plan to present the pros & cons of euthanasia. But the syndicate added comfortingly: Dr. Morgan would not forget his Hippocratic Oath...
...Browns were the champs of professional football's All-America Conference. When the ill-balanced All America folded up last December, its surviving teams (Cleveland, Baltimore and San Francisco) merged with the 30-year-old National Football League. "Just wait till the Browns run up against those old pros," said National League fans. By this week, with eight victories in ten games, the Browns had run up against-and over-a lot of the old pros and were leading their own (American Conference) division of football's big-league...
Because he plays in one of college football's minor leagues, Halfback Bright may be passed over by the All-America selectors, but the pros have not overlooked him. The professionals cannot make direct offers without violating the rule book, but they can send him questionnaires. So far, Bright has received questionnaires from the New York Giants, the Los Angeles Rams, the Philadelphia Eagles, the Cleveland Browns and the Green Bay Packers. With his senior year still ahead of him, Johnny Bright is in no hurry, but he does hope to play the pro game for a while...
Gussie Moran got top billing as the tennis pros opened their winter tour in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week; Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura and Pauline Betz Addie took what poster space was left. As a reflection of tennis ability this made no sense, but the pros knew what they were doing. Their box-office mixture is not tennis alone, but tennis with a brimming jigger of circus stuff...