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...play. . . . I get 'em younger." He controls basketball in the city's seven elementary schools, where Crum-trained coaches spot likely kids. Coach Crum is also director of Allentown's 17 summer playgrounds, where basketball courts are standard equipment. "Any time I come across a promising stringbean," says he, "I just naturally bring him along...
Worth Two Cents. Credit for improving revision methods goes to Ohio-born, frog-voiced Elkin Harrison Powell, 54, president of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. since 1934, and Editor Yust, a patient, diligent stringbean of a Pennsylvanian who joined the staff in 1930. In 1939, Yust started a revision schedule under which every article would be scrutinized at least twice a decade. As helpers in this job he has University of Chicago graduate students, paid in the form of $1,000 scholarships...
...Orleans, 73,000 fans filled the Sugar Bowl to watch undefeated Tennessee play undefeated Boston College. When the sun had set on as hair-raising a game as has been seen all fall, the underdog Boston gang, led by scrawny Charlie O'Rourke, a 158-lb. stringbean, had proved that they could take care of themselves in any company...
Rather than waste Buck Newsom or Schoolboy Rowe against Cleveland's Boy Wonder, Manager Del Baker started Floyd Giebell, a right-handed rookie brought up from Buffalo only ten days before. A gawky stringbean who had lost more games this season than he had won, Rookie Giebell looked like a sacrificial lamb as he ambled out to the mound. But no lamb was Giebell that day. With cunning change of pace and the control of an oldtimer, the green-as-grass rookie shut out the Indians...