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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tackle: Bill Leeka, 20, U.C.L.A.; 6 ft. 1 in., 210 lbs. Senior. Major: business education. Considered a "real sleeper" by pro scouts, lost chance for many All-Americas because of eligibility restrictions that allowed him to play in only five games. Likes to grin at opponents at game's start, offer to shake hands, saying: "Let's be civilized while we can, shall we?" May forgo pro football for career in movies...
Guard: John Guzik, 22, Pittsburgh; 6 ft. 3 in., 230 lbs. Senior. Major: business administration. Was the star of one of the most rugged lines in college football this year. Has the size and agility to make a tremendous linebacker for any pro defensive unit; drafted last year by Los Angeles Rams...
Quarterback: Joe Kapp, 20, California; 6 ft. 2 in., 205 lbs. Senior. Major: physical education. Football's best running quarterback; a slick ball handler, he put California in the Rose Bowl almost singlehanded; called his plays with rare perception, executed them with extraordinary finesse and poise...
...Wall Streeter whose advice is most often sought by U.S. businessmen is Sidney J. Weinberg, 67, who now has the oracle's seat once occupied by Bernard Baruch. As a senior partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., one of The Street's top ten banking houses, Weinberg has won an enviable reputation as an underwriter skilled at judging the new issue market just right. His most recent success was selling $350 million of Sears, Roebuck debentures-history's biggest debt offering-in a bond market so soggy that some underwriters doubted the issue could be marketed...
What further bothers market specialists about the tax is that it prevents people from being guided by what they really think is a good investment, tends to make the market a less realistic mirror of business conditions. "With capital gains," says Walter Maynard, senior partner of Shearson, Hammill & Co., "you are betting the certainty of a 25% loss v. a problematical gain. And with that certainty of a loss, investors will refrain from making a sale even while admitting that the price of a security is high enough for them...