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Last week, the baby of U.S. state universities showed how big it had become. It took over a big booth at the Syracuse state fair for an exhibition of displays from its various campuses. New Yorkers found that their university extends from Niagara Falls to Brooklyn, that some bits & pieces of it are more than 100 years old, others barely four. In addition to its 29-school nucleus, S.U.N.Y. has absorbed two medical schools-the Long Island College of Medicine and the Syracuse University medical school-and two small postwar colleges, Champlain and Triple Cities. With last year...
Middleman. In Detroit, Horace Booth, secretary treasurer of United Auto Workers' C.I.O. Local 922, admitted cashing 130 union checks, but insisted that he "didn't profit a cent": "I played the numbers and lost...
Died. General Evangeline Cory Booth, 84, the Salvation Army's fourth world general (1934-39), daughter of its British founder, William Booth; in Hartsdale, N.Y. Auburn-haired "Little Eva" was born the same year as the Army. Longtime head of the Army in the U.S., she won a bitter fight with brother Bramwell Booth to make the generalship elective, was herself elected to succeed Bramwell's successor, Edward John Higgins...
...murder in May 1949 of Willie Lurye, an International Ladies' Garment Workers Union organizer, was a sensational news story. Shortly after he was stabbed to death in a telephone booth in Manhattan's garment center, the union posted a $25,000 reward for the capture of his killers; a few days later, tens of thousands of garment workers joined the funeral march (TIME, May 23, 1949) as 100 New York City detectives hunted the killers. The hunt was still at its height when Columnist Walter Winchell got into the case: from a friend "on the side...
Until next Monday tickets will be sold at a booth in Lamont Library. Mail purchases will continue after that date...