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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Another. A bouncy man of 40, Paco was born Francisco Rubiales, got his start as a bullfight critic by taking the pseudonym Malgesto (meaning grimace) and unashamedly plagiarizing the work of Mexico's most popular critics. "So I be gan with 40 years' experience, though I was only 21 years old," says Paco. From newspapering he ad-glibbed his way into radio, mostly reporting sporting events to sports-happy Mexicans. When TV arrived in force seven years ago, Pace's genial personality went with the small screen the way a hot sauce goes with enchiladas...
Whether the Cards can make it all the way to the title depends largely on Jones and his pitching colleagues in one of the best mound staffs in the majors. By the word of the experts, pitching was the fatal flaw of the Cards at season's start. But Jones has lately found the proper groove (his season record: 7-3), and Larry Jackson has a nifty 2.83 earned-run average and a 10-4 record. And, best of all, the Cardinals are getting a buoyant boost from their pair of bonus babies plucked off an Oklahoma cotton farm...
Picking Up Speed. Detroit's automakers seemed to be picking up speed after a slower-than-expected start in 1957's auto market. While no company has announced its quarterly earnings, gains over 1956 were freely predicted. Auto dealers reported a surprising boomlet at the end of June, which pushed sales for the month to 544,750 units and the best figure since March 1956. The June comeback boosted overall sales for the first six months of 1957 to within 2.3% of the 1956 mark, after they had been 5% behind at the end of the first quarter...
FIRST POLAR FLIGHTS by U.S. airlines will start this fall. Pan American and T.W.A. will fly over the polar region from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Europe, while Pan Am will also fly via pole from Seattle and Portland, Ore. Scandinavia's SAS now is only line operating over polar route...
...Station Attendant Lonnie Taylor, ordered by a bandit to hand over about $105 cash and then go into the men's room "to count to 100," got to five and hurried out to call police, found the gunman just leaving, was told to get back in and start again-from zero...