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Double Take. At week's end, with the outcome still unclear, the A.F.L. had 7,568 votes to the I.L.A.'s 9,060, with a block of 4,405 challenged ballots (an important point at issue: eligibility of men who had worked part-time on the piers) still to be processed. Obviously startled, the I.L.A. hurriedly set out to nail down a contract from their old friend, the New York Shipping Association, and threatened to strike this week if negotiations were not begun...
Manhattan-born Tom Lehrer is not sure he wants to entertain any more, anyhow. He started, for reasons that are still unclear to him, while a Harvard undergraduate, and by the time he was a graduate student (in mathematics), found he was in demand. He kept pushing his material to see just how bloodthirsty he could get and get away with it. Now he knows, and with a brief taste of Manhattan night life in his mouth, he is ready to give it up. He would rather write ditties for others to sing...
...this nationally televised and broadcast program, Ramsey, a well-known unclear physicist, will explain the University's actions in not suspending Associate Professor Wendell H, Furry. Ramsey made it clear last night, however, that he is not speaking for the University, only for himself...
...neutrals censor their mail. Thimayya said all right, if the other neutrals agreed, but "I asked them what we should do in the case of a letter from a man's wife who writes 'Oh, darling, please come home to me,' and they seemed a little unclear...
TIME'S Sept. 7 review of Maugham's Choice of Kipling's Best leaves unclear the reason why the Indian member of a polo team visiting the officers of another regiment (in The Man Who Was) ". . . could not, of course, eat with the mess." This might lead some readers to infer that it was because of British insularity or snobbishness. The reason was that the Indian officer's caste might be broken if he ate with nonbelievers in his religion...