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Major-league baseball was confronted with one of its worst scandals since the Black Sox series of 1919: the owner of one of the nation's most famous baseball clubs was heading for a prison cell. The culprit was a trim, glib little St. Louis lawyer turned businessman (real estate) named Fred M. Saigh, who parlayed $60,800 in borrowed cash into a $4,000,000 baseball empire...
...Duty: A handsome, square-jawed man whose black hair has begun to grey, Taylor (6 ft., 175 lbs.) has "a dislike of getting fat." To keep in trim he plays handball in winter and tennis in summer. A nonsmoker, he keeps social activities to a minimum, and drinks, according to one acquaintance, "as little as possible for a man of his rank." Married to Lydia Gardner Happer since 1925, he has two sons, John Maxwell, 22, a Government employee, and Thomas...
Looking like the gambler he claims to be-lean, tanned, well-tailored, and sporting a trim mustache-Mangrum has long played in the shadow of the Hogans, Sneads and Nelsons. Seldom winning the big ones, but plugging along at his trade with the gambler's instinct for the law of averages, Mangrum manages to play in more tournaments and win more money than any other touring pro. With winnings, exhibitions and bonuses, he figures that in the past five years he has earned some $300,000 from his golfing talents...
...teaching of mathematics is "ready for drastic alteration." Instead of the old prep-school curriculum of two years of algebra, one of plane geometry, and one of either trigonometry or solid geometry, schools should place more stress on broad mathematical principles. They should trim away some of the excess fat, condense such topics as complex numbers and logarithmic solutions of triangles in favor of the more enlightening study of calculus and statistics...
Torpedo on the Track. Savings in fuel and grease meant bonuses, and engineers were constantly chancing runs on nearly greaseless bearings. Keeping the creaky engines in trim meant long hours of extra work for the drivers, but a breakdown was never blamed on faulty equipment. It was always labeled negligence or sabotage. Fearful of punishment and goaded by high wages (up to 1,250 forints-about $100-a month), the engineers did what they could, but accidents were frequent, timetables seldom kept. Engineers who complained, disappeared...