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...loss of Kessler and Harshbarger will hurt, but coach John Yovicsin received some consolation by the return of several missing linemen yesterday. End Tom Stephenson, on the bench for two weeks with a rib fracture, is back, along with tackle Jeff Pochop and guard Walt Dobrzelecki. Guard Bill Southmayd should be able to work out today...
...amazed to find a great omission in your article on trading stamps [Oct. 26]. Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo, has solved...
...Aunt Gert and Uncle Walter Snyder worked for the Scrantons for some 42 years. At Hobe Sound, Fla., one night, a tanker was torpedoed off the coast. The "Duchess," as you called her, and my Aunt Gert and Uncle Walt helped all of the survivors into the elegantly furnished Scranton winter home. About 100 oil-soaked sailors were given blankets, cigarettes, coffee, sandwiches. Mrs. Scranton was up all night helping to make the men comfortable...
...Walt Alston, 50, another one-year, $42,000 contract to manage the National League's not-quite-victorious Los Angeles Dodgers. While the World Series was delayed by rain, idle sportswriters amused themselves by speculating that the job would go to Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, who insisted that the Bums would not have kicked the pennant away to the Giants had he been boss. But General Manager Buzzy Bavasi decided to stick with mild, long-suffering Alston, and he in turn let on that Durocher could come back too, as a coach. Shrugged Bavasi: "If Alston can live with...
Mattel gives much of the credit to saturation selling on TV. In 1955, Mattel, still a fledgling firm with annual sales of only $6,000,000, decided to move into toy burp guns. Anxious to give the new product a big advertising sendoff, the Handlers nervously agreed to sponsor Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club show for a year, at a cost of $500,000. Recalls Ralph Carson of Los Angeles' Carson-Roberts ad agency, which handles the Mattel account: "We were on the air six times and nothing happened. Then the Mattel people came back from...