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...Everett g '24, % Univ. of Oklahoma Medical School, 13th St. Olahoma City...
...again won for the Dodgers, 3 to 2. In the final game the Cardinals belted unbeaten Preacher Roe for nine hits while the Dodgers were getting five, but Brooklyn again won, 2 t01, on a ninthinning, bases-loaded single by Outfielder Carl Furillo. It was Brooklyn's 13th one-run victory of the season...
...mistake of mass-jailing the liberals; instead he launched straight into a steamroller campaign for the presidency. His opponents were ineffective; Perón controlled the radio, and his police and bullyboys broke up opposition meetings. At Christmas the government decreed that employers must pay all workers a 13th month's wage as a bonus. In the opinion of most observers, this assured Perón's victory. When election day came, the months of government intimidation abruptly ceased; after such an efficiently unfair campaign, there could be a free-and legal-election...
Ever since the 13th Century, when they started to build it, the people of the French city of Rouen have taken a mighty pride in their gothic cathedral. Architecturally, it is too much of a hodgepodge to rank with the cathedrals of Chartres, Amiens or Reims. But Rouen's delicately detailed Butter Tower,* fine sculptures and stained glass are among the prides of France. The largest of its great bells was named for Joan of Arc, who was brought to Rouen for imprisonment and trial, was burned in 1431 near the cathedral in Rouen's market place...
...sales as well as profits, General Motors was tops. And with a big slice of G.M. income to fatten its earnings, Du Pont, though it ranked only 13th in sales, stood fourth in profits. Contrariwise, some companies with big sales ranked relatively poorly in profits, because of traditionally slim profit margins. A notable example: A & P (which has not yet finished auditing its fiscal 1950 sales, but expects a tidy increase) ranks fifth in sales but only 16th in profits...