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Married. Wilma Baard, 23, blonde model and bargemaster's daughter who achieved fame two years ago when 14 Manhattan café cowboys sponsored her "debut" in protest at the Brenda Frazier hoopla; and Count Nava del Tajo, 25, distant relative of the Duke of Alba; in Manhattan...
...years ago the Corporation voted a flat and unanimous "no" to the proposal of paid-for sportscasting of Vern Struck's fake spinners. Its argument was the usual fear of "commercialization." But the sale of radio rights is not the type of "commercialization" to which there can be logical protest. Purchase of players is not wanted and is quite distinct from the sale of the entertainment they provide. The Corporation's old argument ignores the fact that football at Harvard is already a business-a big business which sells higher-priced seats than any theatre in town, rents expensive concessions...
...knows," said the Major, "but the dove will protest vigorously...
...life. New Dealish in tone, they are critical of big business, cry out against unequal distribution of wealth and unequal opportunities in the U. S. Few years ago businessmen, alarmed at what sounded like undermining of the U. S. system of private enterprise, began to protest. They attacked particularly a series of 20 books written by mild-mannered, white-haired Professor Harold Ordway Rugg of Columbia University's Teachers College...
...Century magazine story called A Reputation by Richard Connell, Meet John Doe begins modestly enough in the office of a newspaper which is firing many tried & true employes. A young girl columnist (Barbara Stanwyck) angrily invents as her last column a letter signed John Doe stating that he will protest against civic and general corruption by jumping from the top of City Hall on Christmas Eve. When the fake is about to be disclosed, the girl gets her job back by suggesting that an appropriate John Doe be hired and interviewed daily. For this purpose the paper engages a gawkingly...