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...general merchandise manager for Ward, Wood spent the first few months merely asking questions. "It was an uncomfortably long time," he says, "before I ran into a young man who could answer straightaway, just like that, and with figures to support his answers." The young man was 24-year-old Theodore Houser, a merchandise controller; Wood made him his assistant. As a team, Wood and Houser concentrated on the tire division. In five years, sales increased tenfold, to twice as many tires as Sears, their archcompetitor...
...driver with a chance of catching up with Tony's point total for the season failed to qualify, Bet-tenhausen was in. But he still drove as if he had everything to lose. He took the lead on the fifth lap, by the twelfth stretched it to the straightaway's length, had lapped the whole field by the 49th. His winning time for the 100 miles:1 hr. 14min...
...stunt. A New York Times sports columnist summed up the reaction: "Fight for nothing? Who? Sugar Ray Robinson? Oh, no! It can't be. There must be some angle there!" But if there was an angle, Robinson rounded the corner on two wheels, gunned down a new straightaway. He now thoroughly enjoys his new personality as the responsible citizen. He is a big man in Harlem, a political power, who is often on the phone with his good friend Mayor Impellitteri ("I call him Vince"). Walter Winchell buzzes him constantly. Edna Mae (on her way to join Robinson...
...opening of Canada's Parliament last week, the Tories took a searching look at the government's program for 1951, noted the absence of concrete plans for expanding the nation's armed forces, and straightaway opened fire...
...shocked cry went up from the crowd as the leaders roared to the end of a straightaway and into a graveled S curve at a 100-m.p.h. clip. One of the cars just ahead of Goldschmidt, a red Ferrari driven by Veteran Racer Sam Collier,* suddenly spun out of control, whipped halfway through the curve, plunged down a 6-ft. embankment, spun end over end three times. Driver Collier was flung free but died an hour and 20 minutes later of a crushed chest and head injuries...