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...most imposing feature of the Kansas City (Mo.) landscape is a Boy Scout leader named Harold Roe Sturdyvant Bartie, who weighs 282 lbs. and is outsized only by his own voice. As the salaried head of the area's Boy Scout Council, and as a businessman (he is a member of 17 boards of directors), part-time lawyer, landlord (he has an interest in a Caracas, Venezuela apartment project), farmer and cattleman (he owns 5,000 acres in Missouri and Oklahoma), educator (he was president of Missouri Valley College at Marshall), civic leader and public speaker (some 200 speeches...
Bartle's opponent was Berl Berry, who bills himself as the world's largest Lincoln-Mercury dealer. Berry's style of living became the main issue of the campaign. Noting that Berry was promising lower taxes, Roe Bartle roared: "I have seen his lovely master bedroom with the especially designed bed ten feet wide and ten feet long. If a man can enjoy his night's rest in a bed of that type, he ought to be willing to pay more taxes than those of us who have te sleep in ordinary beds. If he desires...
...around the world. But with the exception of Vickers' short-haul Viscount turboprop (TIME, Jan. 3), most of Britain's postwar transports, especially its long-range planes, have been expensive flops. Avro's huge, highly touted Tudor transport failed in a series of disastrous crashes; Saunders-Roe's immense, ten-engined Princess flying boat has been in the prototype stage since 1946, still needs better engines; Bristol's equally large Brabazon, designed to carry 100 passengers across the Atlantic, never got into production, was finally broken up and sold for scrap. And De Havilland...
...Coanda Effect. Frost, who lives in Toronto with his wife and son, helped to design wartime gliders, later the Vampire jet and DH-108 tailless jet. As chief design engineer for special projects at A.V. Roe Canada. Ltd. (part of Britain's famed Hawker-Siddeley aircraft group), he worked on Canada's first home-built jet fighter, the CF-100. Meanwhile, in a top-secret screened area at Avro's Maiton plant, he designed flying saucers-at least one 40-ft. mockup, with a flattened end and spindly undercarriage. This model, quickly nicknamed he "Praying Mantis...
...whole team had a great year in '53 and there will certainly be some slumps from that peak. The Dodgers' main strong-point this season will be a greatly-improved pitching staff, headed by big Don Newcombe, returned from the Army, followed by flashy Carl Erskine, Meyer, Loes, Podres, Roe, and a host of good young pitchers...