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Just ten months ago, a shrewd labor lawyer named Edward Lamb won a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving Michigan's Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.-and thereby opened the door to over $5 billion in portal-to-portal back-pay suits. Then the case was sent back to Detroit's federal court, where it had started, to determine how much was due the pottery workers. This time Lamb did not fare so well...
...sacrificial lamb chosen to bolster Cerdan's U.S. reputation last week was Harold Green of Brooklyn, a better-than-average middleweight who had twice beaten Rocky Graziano. (Rocky knocked him out in their third fight.) In round two, the Frenchman shot three rapid rights to the head that buckled Green's knees; a left hook to the body dumped him at Cerdan's feet.* At the count of ten Green was wavering to his feet, but the referee decided he was through. It was victory No. 98 in Cerdan's 100 fights...
...home eating my junior food," said K. C. Adams, editor of the Mine Workers Journal. "It's already chewed-lamb and vegetables, chopped liver and prunes and applesauce that looks like gunpowder." Mr. Adams has a delicate stomach. "I asked Lillie [Mrs. Adams] to fix me some tea. She made it out of one of those little tea balls." Mr. Adams made the motions of gently dipping a tea ball into a cup, " 'Lillie,' I said, 'this tea with no leaves won't do me no good. I need the leaves and a gypsy...
More people bought more phonograph records (300 million) last year than in any year since Thomas Edison recorded Mary Had a Little Lamb. If they were guided by the critics at all, record-buyers frequently found the critics disagreeing. Last week, for the first time, five U.S. music critics* sang in harmony. For a magazine called the Review of Recorded Music they picked the year's best classical recordings. Only Conductor Arturo Toscanini (see above) won two ribbons. The critics' choices...
...also is in a power-laden weight. Busby has been out most of the season with injured ribs. Jim Howard, replacing injured Bib Claflin, will represent the Crimson. Boston had still not picked his 121-pounder last night, and whoever does wrestle will probably be a sacrificial lamb...