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...moderate Republican, he was named Ambassador to the Court of St. James's by President Eisenhower in 1956, and while still a diplomat, he purchased the ailing New York Herald Tribune, which he was unable to save, though it was his most treasured business project. An avid sportsman, Thoroughbred horse breeder and art collector, Whitney was an active philanthropist who gave away about $1 million a year. A man who savored the amenities and comforts his achievements easily afforded him, he never flaunted his wealth ($200 million at his death). Demanding in 1946 that his name be stricken from...
Just three days after the city of Pittsburgh honored him as its sportsman of the year, University of Pittsburgh Head Football Coach Jackie Sherrill, 38, jumped to Texas A & M as new head coach and athletic director. Sherrill's clipboard and whistle will earn him an estimated average annual salary of $280,000 over the next six years, making him the highest-paid employee on any of the nation's campuses. Sherrill breezed through his third 11-1 record in a row this past season, but his hitch in College Station, Texas, may be bumpy. Texas...
...placing our faith, we hope, as the sportsman always does, that the better team will win. And when all is said and done the better team probably will win, for failures and flukes are as much a measure of a team as splendid gains and wonderful charges. If a team fails in a crucial test, it is not the better team at that time, whatever it may have been before or may be after. But, to be frank, the philosophy of hoping that the better team will win is curiously involved with a good deal of believing that...
...nation's largest general aviation companies; of injuries received when he was struck by a car near his home; in Oak Brook, Ill. Butler, an expert pilot, founded Butler Aviation in 1946 to provide fuel and service for private aircraft in airports across the country. An avid sportsman, he once maintained 3,000 acres in Oak Brook, comprising an airstrip, riding stables, a golf course and 13 polo fields...
...Sportsman's Paradise...