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...Tass news agency make a great show of acting like reporters. But last week such members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors as Columnist David Lawrence and Scripps-Howard Editor Walker Stone thought it was time for a showdown on the question: Are Tassmen in the U.S. bona fide reporters or simply Russian agents gathering intelligence material for Russia's vast espionage system...
...hierarchy. Against the Detroit Tigers, Veeck led off his batting order with the strangest figure ever to wear a major-league uniform: brandishing a toy bat, a midget (3 ft. 7 in.) named Ed Gaedel stepped up to the plate. Before the Tigers could protest, Manager Taylor produced a bona fide contract, and the baffled umpire said, "Play ball." Tiger Pitcher Bob Cain, obviously afraid of hitting the batter with a fast pitch, admitted defeat by giving Gaedel an intentional walk* (Final score: Tigers 6; Browns 2.) League President Will Harridge was not so delighted. He promptly told Veeck that...
...Government and its activities are, in a very real sense, a mirror of our national life . . . our colleges, under extreme pressure from the alumni, have become so intent upon winning football and basketball games that they use any means to gain their ends. They hire players who are not bona fide students . . . They corrupt not only the hired players but also the entire student body, who learn from their elders the cynical, immoral doctrine that one must win at all costs...
...this the most effective method of weakening the aggressive motives of the Russian government? It seems to foreclose any possibility of increased contact between Russians and the West. It provides a bona fide foreign threat against which the Soviet government can organize. It puts the development of backward economies, the development of free institutions, and the development of a common loyalty to the United Nations in a position clearly inferior to the development of military establishments...
...Republican State Committee refused the Liberal Union invitation partly because "the committee did not know that it was a bona fide organization," according to Moore...