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...long and complicated race for control of the bankrupt Missouri Pacific, Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young has had the throttle wide open, but so far has gotten nowhere. Young has been battling an ICC plan which would turn over the now profitable road to the bondholders and wipe out MoPac's 828,395 shares of common stock, more than half of which are owned by Young's Alleghany Corp. (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week Young lost his fourth attempt to block the ICC plan, when the U.S. Supreme Court turned down requests by him and four others...
...Cranney at first base. A good fielder, Cranney has been hitting well with men on the bases, and dragged a beautiful bunt against Exeter to score the second run. Frank Nahigian, a prime example of the steadiness of the Yardlings, plays second. Nahigian has fielded well and gotten on base a lot as lead off batter...
...seven years had left him in excellent health. White House Physician Wallace H. Graham was able to report that the presidential weight was exactly 174 lbs., just what he wanted it to be. Harry Truman announced that he never felt better. Furthermore, the President had finally gotten the White House fixed up to suit him. Fully settled again, after three years at Blair House, he could not resist announcing that he had managed in the process to escape from That Bed-a carved and canopied four-poster which was installed by Teddy Roosevelt and dutifully occupied by every President since...
...course the department has gotten smaller," Kahl says, "but it may not be smaller than it ought to be, because we really cannot say what would be a normal enrollment." In the years following the department's inception in '46 it grew large very quickly. It was a new field that offered a broad program of study, and at its peak in the class of '50, the department was drawing an over large number of men who were not vocationally interested in the subject matter. These were students who were looking for a general education at a time when...
...from other parishes (which did not make him popu lar with their priests). After nine months, Peoria's Bishop Dunne called Sheen and told him that he was to go teach at Catholic University. "I promised you to them three years ago, but everyone said you'd gotten so high-hat in Europe that you wouldn't take orders any more. But you've been a good boy, so run along." In & Out of the Basement. Sheen be came one of the most popular professors at Catholic University. And his fame grew. Washington hostesses began...