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...second running of the sweepstakes this year, separate three-man juries in 22 countries (each with its own $1,000 national winner) were set up to ensure that only the best reached the finish line. Fortnight ago three top jurists (British Critic Sir Herbert Read, former Director General of French Museums Georges Salles and British Painter Morris Kestelman) were flown to Manhattan, repaired to a storage warehouse to inspect the final 114 oils and pick the grand-prize winner. "It was very quiet," chuckled Georges Salles. "We sat in three chairs like the three judges of Hell...
...Crimson forwards revived an old failing of last year as they were unable to set up plays in front of the Amherst goal and get off good shots. Often the varsity linemen would get the ball deep into Amherst territory where they would be confronted by a formidable, three-man line of defense. Instead of trying to go around this line, they would try unsuccessfully to go through it. The result was that the Amherst goalie never had to handle a really difficult shot in the whole afternoon...
...three-man U.S. delegation will meet with delegates from Britain, France, Canada, Italy, Soviet Russia, Poland, Rumania, and Czechoslovakia...
...York City asked her to name the "CBS spokesman" she quoted as saying that Singer Judy Garland "doesn't want to work . . . because something is bothering her [and] I wouldn't be surprised if it's because she thinks she's terribly fat." The three-man U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the requested information was material and relevant in Singer Garland's $1,393,333 suit against CBS for libel and breach of contract...
...Candidate Dwight Eisenhower's adviser on government operations, drew up plans for coordinating federal agencies; after Eisenhower was elected, served on a three-man (other members: Milton Eisenhower, Arthur Flemming) committee that streamlined government, established -among other things-a new Department of Health, Education and Welfare. ¶As HEW under secretary (1953-54), drafted legislation to extend Social Security benefits and increase vocational rehabilitation. Also offered other proposals, e.g., federal reinsurance to extend private-hospitalization benefits, aid to education, that were too liberal for the Eisenhower Administration...