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...share of scars. He remembers the day in March, 1951, when he moved that the Wage Stabilization Board recommend a freeze of basic wage increases at ten percent, to stop the Korean inflation. When the motion passed, one of the labor members was so angry he stuck his fist through a plate glass window. Labor walked out on the board, Dunlop recalls, and its press denounced him as a tool of management. A year later, during the crippling steel strike, he voted to grant a union shop to the Basic Steel industry. For this he was blasted on the floor...
...Pentagonal crown is still attainable to the much-defeated but league-leading hockey team, for the stretch, the sextet will be at full strength for the fist time this season. But the resulting few line-up faces five out of its remaining eight contests against teams ranked above it in the East...
Because of a lack of comparative scores, it's still too early to toll how the Crimson ought to do, but a common opponent is forthcoming, and it will then be obvious what the varsity must do. Yale had its fist eastern Intercollegiate meet last Saturday and swamped Army, 67 to 13. The Crimson faces Army this weekend. And it hopes to end Yale's unbeaten string of 100-odd meets at the end of the season...
...profit before (publishing) pleasure. Upon one occasion, when a book had achieved almost miraculous success and was selling with the fervor of a Maxwell Bodneheim epic, Moore stomped into a Syndics' meeting a little late. Physically a tremendous man with a booming voice, he slammed the table with a fist and reared, "Well, by God, it's just as I told You-we should never have accepted the book." Profits seemed almost indecent to these men. They were among the finest scholars our country has known, living in a tradition of pure learning and inspired by what they considered worthy...
...Lynch of The Plainclothesman and Ralph Bellamy of Man Against Crime, who have spent the last five years laboriously tracking down evildoers. Most TV cops and private eyes have a tendency to lose their revolvers at crucial points in the narrative. This mishap insures a bang-up last-minute fist fight to get the gun back and has the added attraction, of taking the viewers' minds off the idiocy of the plot...