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Burning to teach, Jim Babinetz, 19, of Trafalgar, Ont., enrolled last month at suburban Toronto's Long Branch Teachers College. Last week Jim was dropped from school. The reason: "Gross obesity." His record as a star four-sport athlete in high school was no defense. Though 6 ft. tall, he weighed 278 Ibs., had a 44-in. waist, 51 -in. hips when he entered college. Explained an official: "He wouldn't make a good teacher. Obesity in teachers has a bad effect on children. There must be a limit to the size of teachers...
Despite erratic protection, Meredith has passed for seven of S.M.U.'s 13 touchdowns this year. As a sophomore, he set the alltime completion record for major colleges with a startling 69.6%, at his present clip will finish this season with a three-year mark of 63% to break the record of 62% set last year by Utah's Lee Grosscup (now a scrub-practice quarterback for the New York Giants). "Meredith's uncanny the way he throws," marvels one impressed opponent. "I think he has radar in his receiver's helmets...
Hard-Nosed, Hard-Bitten.WhenCoach Schwartzwalder arrived in 1949, Syracuse's chief interest in football was to beat archrival Colgate occasionally. Coach Ben brought with him a 25-5 record, compiled at little Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., and a determination to revive Syracuse's glory days of the '20s, when the team won 50, lost 11, tied 6 in seven seasons. As a 152-lb. center out of Huntington, he had learned hard-nosed football at West Virginia playing for Coach Greasy Neale, later coach of the pro's world champion Philadelphia Eagles. As a paratrooping major...
Even some of the struck steel giants, despite big quarterly losses, reported nine-month earnings well ahead of last year. Third-ranking Republic reported a net loss of $24,861,406, biggest quarterly loss in its 60-year history. But because of a record second period, Republic's nine months' net was $2.69 per share v. $2.50 last year. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., No. 6 among the nation's steelmakers, had a third-quarter loss of $7,149,660. In the first nine months of 1959, Youngs-town's net was $6.20 per share...
PRIVATE-HOUSING starts will exceed 1,300,000 units in 1959, close to 1950 record (1,352,000), predicts Housing and Home Finance Administrator Norman Mason. In first nine months housing starts were at annual rate of 1,375,000, but tight money is expected to cause more than seasonal slack-off in last quarter...