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...GUARDS: John Skinners, Xavier, 6 ft. 3 in., 255 Ibs.; and Rufus Mayes, Ohio State, 6 ft. 5 in., 250 Ibs. Few college guards are big enough to hold their own in the pros, and the pros usually fill the position with the fastest and most agile college tackles. In the case of Shinners, however, this need not be true. He is a stick-out at guard, with "great maneuverability, good lateral movement and the speed to pull out and lead sweeps. He's a winner-period." Mayes is a converted tight end with "excellent balance, quick feet...
When citizenship time comes, Kaplan practices for the judge's (Rufus Smith) questions. Asked to recite the Preamble to the Constitution, the marvelously assured Kaplan rattles off the Boy Scout oath. "That isn't in the Constitution," he is told. His face momentarily clouded in mock chagrin, Kaplan replies, "It isn't? Well, it should be." Saturated with Tom Bosley's warm humanity and lit with his winning smile, Kaplan seems to exemplify what F. Scott Fitzgerald once defined as the essence of America-"a willingness of the heart...
Died. Dr. Rufus E. Clement, 67, Negro educator and president of Atlanta University since 1937; of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Told in 1940 by an Atlanta cop that he would be shot entering a whites-only area, Clement replied: "If I get shot, I'll get shot in the back." That brand of mettle led him to reject Booker T. Washington's philosophy that Negro education should be aimed at vocational skills; instead, he gave A.U. intellectual aims to make it the best of its kind...
...Detroit, Washington, Rochester and New York. "What's all this white trash doin' round here?" asked one Negro woman as she made way for the Romney cavalcade in Washington. Nonetheless, the response in the slums was generally enthusiastic. "I think he's a cool dude," said Rufus ("Catfish") Mayfield, head of PRIDE, a Negro self-help organization in the capital. "I mean...
...Died. Rufus Wysor, 81, a metallurgist who became president of Republic Steel in 1937, directing the company's wartime expansion, then resigned in 1945 to take on the formidable task of planning the revival of Germany's shattered steel industry, later went to Japan from 1947 to 1948 to do much the same job as a private consultant; of Parkinson's disease; at Sea Island...