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...Smith, 41, who won the Medal of Honor for some cool-headed shooting and lifesaving on an Eighth Air Force bomber, was sentenced to ten days in jail for turning in a false report in a suicide hoax. Smith, it was claimed, was trying for some publicity to help boost his chances for becoming governor of Virginia. The hoax: as a young mother pretended to jump from the sixth floor of a Y.W.C.A. building, Snuffy bravely crawled out on the ledge and "persuaded" her to come back...
...closing came as a shock to Royal Blue's miners, but not to most Southern coal operators. They had expected that some mines would be shut by the $1.90-a-day hike in pay and the 10?-a-ton boost in pension fund payments (now 30?) promised to John L. Lewis' miners. Blue Diamond, which operates nine other mines in the South, closed Royal Blue because the new boosts would throw it into...
...League football got a boost yesterday from Colonel Robert McCormick, Chicago Tribune publisher, who watched Yale's 35-28 triumph over Columbia...
...Prospector. After war's end, the Atomic Energy Commission gave uranium mining a big boost by a system of bonus payments. In one month, 1,133 prospectors checked in at AEC headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo. "For a while," says a resident, "we were swamped with guys with Geiger counters and shovels. When you went up on the mesa they popped up behind every bit of sagebrush like Indians. But few did any good...
Cancer research at the University received a boost from the American Cancer Society yesterday, the largest part of a $283,000 grant. This total was divided among five New England institutions...