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Hollywood's happy change of spirits came at a happy time: Hollywood's 50th anniversary.* In an hour-long radio show this week the Council of Motion Picture Organizations kicked off its year-long publicity campaign to remind everybody. Beginning next week, COMPO will start pouring out $350,000 in a coast-to-coast advertising campaign. A week later, task forces of three to six Hollywood stars, directors and producers will take to the road, to spread the word in men's and women's clubs, churches and schools...
Stoughton Hall was the winner last year with a total of 679 points, beating Holworthy by 55 points. The secret of success in this type of year-long competition is consistency. The Stoughton team or a Stoughton man competed in just about everything offered, including the minor items...
...come to watch the educated cowboys, had seen little Sul Ross College (enrollment: 1,000) of Alpine, Texas, ride off with the team title for the third straight year. Cotton Rosser's tight seat on the "rank" (i.e., fighting) stock won him individual show honors. But Sul Ross's captain, Harley May, again rode away with the All-Around Cowboy title (based on total points accumulated in year-long competition), with an all-around performance...
...Last Second. Other allergies had built up over 5½ years. Club owners could stomach Happy's sonorous ("Ah love baseball") speeches and his bourbon baritone renditions of My Old Kentucky Home, but they found Happy unpalatable whenever he tried to be baseball's "czar" in more than name. The most famous example was Chandler's year-long suspension of Leo Durocher just before opening day, 1947. Other ranklers: the 1949 suspension of Durocher for hitting a fan (later lamely withdrawn when investigation cleared Leo), an order this year to Owner Saigh to cancel a scheduled Sunday...
...again from the wild surmises of Admiral Columbus to the finds of the venturesome bands of Spanish, Dutch, French and English explorers who came in his wake, Biographer John (Daniel Boone) Bakeless has worked his way through their written reports and borrowed from the best of them. His 300-year-long adventure story will give latter-day residents of the continent a green image of the days when the forests stretched nearly unbroken to the Mississippi and Manhattan's Broadway was only a tree-walled Indian trail...