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...York World-Telegram said last week: "The threat of a basketball fix has local colleges so concerned that players are closeted in a hotel room on game days and denied the use of the telephone . . . to keep their players free of association, or even casual contact, with gamblers...
...football, headlines still went to Alvin Paris, a tinhorn gambler who entertained players with partying chorus girls, and tried to fix the National League's championship game between the Bears and the Giants (TIME, Dec. 23). He was due to be sentenced next week...
...Manhattan court last week Gambler Alvin Paris was on trial for attempting to fix a professional football game (he was later convicted). First prospective juror was William H. Haskell, a customers' broker for E. F. Hutton & Co. Haskell claimed he could not be impartial in a gambler's trial because: "I'm in the gambling business myself...
...Heroes. As in every melee, few heroes stood out. G.E.'s Charles E. Wilson cried-and tried-to hold prices, but was swept upwards with the rest. Young Henry Ford II's determined effort to fix union responsibility fell short. Henry J. Kaiser might have turned out to be the hero of the year if he had turned out cars the way he had turned out his ships. But his car-making stuttered along like an 1896 horseless carriage. For great performance, U.S. business had no Man of the Year...
...area of foreign relations, the Republican majority will fix an immediate and searching eye on foreign borrowing. That problem they consider as urgent as the "must" domestic legislation. The world will watch closely. In the Republican philosophy, unlimited money cannot be laid out for foreign loans without creating inflationary debt in the U.S. Inflation in the U.S. would mean certain economic disaster for the world. The Republican hand will not be as wide open as the hand of the last Democratic Congresses...