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...Ireneo Fernando Cruz, realistic rector of the budding University of Cuyo, had organized the Congress of Philosophy. Object: to boost the prestige of Argentina and its government, on which all Argentine universities depend for handouts...
...aboard the luxury liner Queen of Bermuda, 1,323 more came in by Pan American clipper and other airliners. Confident that 60,000 tourists would flock this year to their shops and hotels, their pink beaches and hibiscus-hedged lanes, a few Bermudians had even given hotel prices another boost as the spring season opened...
Virginia Gossard and Cherry Merritt placed first and second in the last event of the day to give the final tally the needed eight point boost. The Annex medley relay team also won a first...
This week, after one continuous 21-hour session, both sides finally accepted a presidential fact-finding board's judgment. The unions got their 40-hour week and a 7?-an-hour wage boost. They lost their argument for extra pay for Saturdays and Sundays. The settlement would add around $300 million to the cost of running the nation's railroads in 1949, but the board figured that the railroads could afford...
Richiardi's tricky illusion act ruined a curtain in The Bronx's remarkable Puerto Rico Theater. It also cost the management dry-cleaning bills for the "blood"-stained clothes of some 20 customers. But it helped boost the week's receipts to $40,000-more than any show but Kiss Me, Kate and As the Girls Go grossed on Broadway last week. The Bronx's big-money playhouse is a magnet for one of New York's lowest-income groups-the growing city-within-a-city of 230,000 Puerto Ricans...