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Died. Colonel William Preston Lane, 87, football pioneer; of heart disease; in Hagerstown, Md. Colonel Lane was the last surviving member of the Princeton team which played against Rutgers in the first intercollegiate football game ever played in the U. S., in 1869. Rutgers won (6-4), did not repeat the victory until last week...
...turn last week of Joseph B. Keenan, first Assistant to the Attorney General and a political specialist in the Janizariat, to repeat what has become the official story about a Third Term: that Franklin Roosevelt would run again "if needed." The Keenan version: "Americans can be of good cheer, for I am sure if the occasion arises where any star of liberal leadership becomes dimmed, we can rely upon that one great American to continue the battle. . . . He will not see the humane policies which he has instituted perish...
...experiment: When Governor Herbert Lehman spoke from Albany over Station WOR (Newark), Announcer Richard Brooks stood by, slipped murmured interpolations into the microphone. As though the Governor were talking some foreign language the listeners could not understand. Announcer Brooks used intervals of applause to repeat and interpret sections of the speech. Not only did he report a sip of water the speaker took, but he also declared repeatedly that his candidate had scored heavily on Republican Opponent Thomas E. Dewey. Listeners capable of understanding the speech without translation protested. Others kicked about the announcer's editorializing. The Brooks murmuring...
...investigator, he testified before it two months ago that the Bund, on the surface a minuscule singing, beer-bibbing and marching society, was in reality a hateful Nazi network with some 500,000 U.S. sympathizers. Last week Chairman Dies made a timely move by recalling Witness Metcalfe to repeat and amplify his previous testimony, having him dress in his Bund uniform for photographers...
...earnestly repeat that so long as negotiations continue, differences may be reconciled. Once they are broken off, reason is banished and force asserts itself...