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...routine gravitation of talent to its most lucrative zone of operations. The Southeast Conference makes no bones about its over-the-counter football. Athletic scholarships are officially licensed, as is expense money, known affectionately within the trade as "B.T.R.", (board, room, tuition). B.T.R. may well put the city pros out of business, especially if many more Trippi incidents bring the market out into the open...
...Pros & Plugs...
Everybody but Hollywood had scouted hula-hipped Herman ("The German") Wedemeyer, St. Mary's Hawaiian-born 170-lb. halfback. An All-America sophomore last year, he had turned down $20,000 from the football pros this spring. Two big-league baseball clubs-the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs-had been after him. So were several sharp-eyed West Coast fight managers, who thought he was a natural boxer. Last week, making his Manhattan debut against Fordham before 30,798 Polo Grounds fans, Weddmeyer, a quadruple-threat man, ran, kicked, blocked-and threw three touchdown passes...
...Pros & Cons. Shining, new $100 million Volta Redonda ($45 million came from the U.S. Export-Import Bank) still had plenty of "ifs" to it. Important production will not get under way before early next year, and the full output of 750,000 tons of steel per year will not be reached until even later. Volta Redonda's critics claim that the plant is badly placed, that the output will be high-cost. Iron ore must travel south from the rich Minas Geraes deposits over a rickety railroad. Coal comes north from the Santa Catarina mines by an inefficient ship...
...Southeastern Conference (Alabama, Tennessee, Tulane, etc.) Georgia is proud of its loyal halfback, Charlie Trippi, who came back to work for alma mammy at a rumored $5,000, plus apartment, auto and incidental considerations; the pros had offered...