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...consent decree, like those signed by RKO, Paramount, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Brothers (TIME, May 17, 1948, et seq.), requires Loew's to sell 24 theaters outright, and possibly 50 others in its 131-theater chain, in order to encourage competition. Under the five consent decrees signed by the movie companies, more than 1,200 theaters will eventually be sold to independent exhibitors. Another 1,300 are slated to be run by the new theater companies that were organized after divorcement...
Before a Paris meeting of the U.N.'s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, U.S. Delegate Channing Tobias rose one day last week to denounce Czechoslovakia's "grotesque performance" in imprisoning A.P. Correspondent William Oatis (TIME, May 7 et seq.). Since Oatis was merely performing the routine duties of a reporter, Tobias said, the U.S. will never "cease to protest the use of William Oatis as a pawn in the suppression of freedom." Added Belgian Delegate Fernand Dehousse: The Communist's definition of a good reporter is one who "must believe the word of the Czech government...
...final boos and catcalls. Among them: ¶The shaky Missouri Valley Conference seemed on the verge of breaking up for good over the case of Drake Halfback Johnny Bright. When conference officials refused to take any action in the slugging that broke his jaw (TIME, Nov. 5 et. seq.), Drake withdrew from the conference, was promptly followed by Bradley University (which has three players awaiting sentence in the basketball fix scandal...
...regents of the University of California finally put an end to the two-year battle of the loyalty oath (TIME, June 27, 1949 et seq.). Without waiting for the state supreme court to decide its constitutional status, they voted to scrap the whole idea of special oaths for faculty-men and other university employees...
Last January famed Burma Surgeon Gordon Seagrave was convicted of abetting treason against the new republic of Burma by allegedly helping rebel Karen tribesmen (TIME, Oct. 16, 1950 et seq.). His sentence: six years at hard labor, later reduced to six months. Longing to return to the north Burma hospital where he had already spent more than half his life, Dr. Seagrave appealed. This week, Burma's three-man Supreme Court rendered the final verdict: not guilty...