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...quite a trick. The "Big Spin in the Brickyard" has always been a race with disaster, and this year was no exception. With only 50 miles behind him, Veteran Paul Russo, pushing the only V-8 engine in the pack (a supercharged Winfield that can turn up to 8,000 r.p.m.), pushed a little too hard. The wicked acceleration of his Novi Vespa Special spun a tire loose on its rim, the valve stem tore, and the resulting blowout sent the racer careening into the south wall. The Novi exploded in a great, greasy ball of flame, but Russo walked...
...other side of the score book, Amherst opened with a victory when Winfield Danielson outlasted an initially stronger Tatsuo Arima for a 5-3 win at 123; the Jeffs followed with another as Dick Danielson shut out sophomore John Winthrop...
...Mark Winfield Cresap, 45, became executive vice president and heir presumptive at Westinghouse four years after he first went to work for the company. President Gwilym A. Price, the man who hired him, continues to hold on to the top spot for the present, but indicated the shape of things to come by also stepping into the post of board chairman, vacant since 1951. Cresap, a Harvard Business School graduate (by way of Williams College), was helping boss his own Chicago-New York management-advisory firm when Gwilym Price dropped in to ask for a survey of Westinghouse...
Died. Eugene Pallette, 65, rotund (285 Ibs.), sandpaper-voiced Hollywood character actor; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Born in Winfield, Kans., where his actor-parents were playing a one-night stand in East Lynne, Actor Pallette made more than 1200 films, first as a juvenile lead in the Norma Talmadge era, later as an archetypical funny fatman (The Ghost Goes West, Heaven Can Wait...
...past 30 years. He served a term as a credit man, took over the retail end of the business when H.S. & M. began buying up shaky retail outlets in 1926 (first purchase: New York's Wallach's stores). In 1933 he worked with the late Mark Winfield Cresap, then president, in overhauling the company's management and policies, has been making most of the executive decisions ever since...