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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, with the Olympic tryouts at Diche Stadium, Evanston, only a month away, Folton is high man in this country with a heave of 180 feet, 5 1/2 inches, made at last Saturday's New York AC meet. He has won the hammer throw in every meet he has entered this spring, including the IC4A championships, and is favored to take the National Collegiate title at Minneapolis this Saturday, and the National AAU crown on July 2-3 at Milwaukee. He set new Harvard records in both the hammer and discus during the recent season...
...Father of the Year (for his food-for-Europe campaign) from 1943's Father of the Year, Dwight Eisenhower. Pearson also got a terse tut for slipping into the ceremony an Eisenhower-for-President plug. The general's view: "I deplore it." In Washington, the Un-American Ac tivities Committee handed Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, chairman, a memento of the committee's tenth anniversary: ten red roses...
...Silken Curtain. In Sweden, where Wallace hopped next, he was received by a choir singing the U.S. national anthem. Ac Stockholm University's auditorium, a crowd of 1,000 people fought to get in for an hour before Wallace was scheduled to speak. But Wallace had gone to another auditorium, where a handful of people were waiting for another speaker, and started to speak before someone found him. There was something about Henry Wallace that bred disorder-even among the orderly Swedes...
...march back to work would not mean peace at AC. The local was determined to recapture its lost members, win a new bargaining election. Said Buse: "Our fight must now be carried on inside the plant...
...with newsmen by holding Mexico's first give& amp; -take presidential press conference, broke another Mexican precedent by starting it at the scheduled time. But he neatly parried all attempts to define his new regime as right or left. Said Alemán, "My Government will be in ac cord with the wishes of the people...