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Ives played in the forward line all of last year and has now practically run the gamut of the positions. Edgar, a big, fast player who has complete control of the ball with either foot, is expected to boost the power of the forwards...
...Tamiroff and John Howard, with their superb acting, are responsible for making "Disputed Passage" a good picture. With Tamiroff as the surgeon of fame and Howard as the struggling, idealistic medical student, the action centers around the byplay between these two characters which gives the picture just the poignant boost it needs...
...time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer can. He has performed special functions in PWA, Resettlement, Farm Security, supervised the attempt to harness the Bay of Fundy's tides at Passamaquoddy. First problem Andrews' successor must face: enforcement of the Oct. 24 minimum wage boost to 30? (from 25?) per hour; the maximum workweek reduction from 44 hours...
...ports. Soviet bombers, some of whom the Estonians thought came from a Russian aircraft carrier, began a threatening patrol over Tallinn and the nearby countryside. What all this meant, the Estonian Government soon learned from their Foreign Minister Karl Selter. He had flown to Moscow the week before to "boost trade," now flew back to Tallinn with word that the Russians bluntly asked Estonia to reduce herself to the status of a protectorate of the Soviet Union in return for trade favors. J. Stalin suggested that an Estonian delegation empowered to sign a treaty along these lines be at once...
...Scripps brothers have got rid of two of their newspapers, cutting their chain down to eight. Weakest of these has been the Portland (Ore.) News-Telegram, chief loser in a circulation war between Portland's other two papers, the morning Oregonian and the evening Oregon Journal. To boost the Journal's falling circulation, its shrewd business manager, Simeon Reed Winch, last week did the smartest thing he could do: persuaded the Scripps boys to fold their News-Telegram and took over (for a reported $600,000) its features and circulation. After eliminating duplication, the Journal should get between...