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There is more to this victory drought than meets the eye. For instance, the Indians have scored 54 points while allowing only 78 in losing their four games. Further, they are functioning without the services of their captain and second-best passer, Leo McKenna, their regular center and left guard from last year's team, plus four promising halfbacks...
...plug their wares in the nation's newspapers, U.S. businessmen spent $594 million in 1954, 1.2% below 1953's peak of $601 million, but still the second-best year on record. As usual, the American Newspaper Publishers Association reported this week, the auto industry (which accounts for 24% of the ads) spent most with a 7.9% increase to a record $139 million, while food dipped 2.8% to come in second with $129 million. The biggest single U.S. advertiser for the eighth straight year: General Motors, whose ad outlay jumped 13.5% to an alltime high of $37.3 million...
...successful single runner for the Crimson was sophomore Phil Williams. Williams, who had run a 4:25 mile as a freshman, almost personally won the four-mile relay with a very good second leg, and then came back to run an unofficial 3:15 for the three quarters in the distance medley. His effort put the Crimson ahead, but Ken Wilson's mile was only second-best to Rhode Island...
There was no avoiding it--the Globetrotters looked like the second-best team; if this continues throughout their long trip it may mean the end of the road for the colorful Negroes. For the word is going to circulate that the Globetrotters have to play basketball, and that they don't clown any more. When this happens, the only people interested in seeing the Globetrotters are going to be basketball fans, and these fans would rather see the Boston Celtics...
...radios. While overall appliance sales were down slightly (to $6.9 billion), 1954 was a near-record year for TV sets (7,000,000) and washing machines (3,650,000), and a record year for air conditioners (1,230,000). Their sales were all bolstered by the second-best housing year on record (1,200,000 houses v. 1,100,000 in 1953 and 1,400,000 in record...