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With that announcement, the three-man draft board of Wabash County, Ind. resigned in a body last week. Reason: Selective Service headquarters in Washington had asked the board to postpone induction of a Congressman's son, John V. Beamer Jr., 24, an engineer. His employer, Procter & Gamble Co., had requested an occupational deferment. Said the board's chairman: "We thought we had [Beamer] in the Army, where he belongs. But some sinister influence or individual in Washington saw fit to interfere...
Premier Matyas Rakosi, a bullet-headed Bolshevik with a 35-year record of service to the party (including 15 years in jail) and a longtime intimate of Stalin, was demoted to membership of an eleven-man politburo and a three-man secretariat, modeled after the new Russian-type organization. Into his place as Premier stepped Imre Nagy, 57, a Moscow-trained Hungarian Communist of only slightly less experience. But the significant change was in policy, not in personnel. With a smiling Rakosi taking a back seat behind the rostrum, new Premier Nagy told a stunned Parliament of the changes that...
...week by the President. The work of scholarly Economics Professor Arthur F. Burns, who will head the new council, the plan will re-establish CEA as the President's top economic advisory group. Like the old CEA, first set up under Harry Truman's Administration, the new three-man board will keep an eye on U.S. economic changes, advise the President on what to do about them, help him prepare his economic reports to the nation. But there the comparison ends...
...Emporia, Kans. to referee a wrestling match, Jack Dempsey, pausing in his steak dinner, joined a curbside crowd and watched a three-man slugfest. Finally, someone called the cops and the scrappers called it a draw. Said Jack: "Best darn fight I've seen in years...
...last season's freshmen. Senior John Atherton, 1952's varsity number three-man, is at seven, with Bob Monks at six. Dick Carroll, last year's freshman 200-pound five-man, is in the same seat on this year's varsity, and senior Lee Rounder has shifted from the 1952 varsity six car to number four this season. sophomore Chic Halle is a three, Captain Phil DuBois is in his regular number two position, while Frank Huntington, another senior has moved up from JV three-man in 1952 to varsity bow this year. Al Lefkowitz is the Coxswain...