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Only One Compromise. The Giants got a bargain. Almost 38, Jackie Robinson is far slower afield and less powerful at bat (.275) than in his heyday of six successive over-.300 seasons. But for upwards of $30,000, plus a journeyman left-handed pitcher, the sixth-place Giants bought one of baseball's alltime great figures, a pro good enough to make his mark in the record books while carrying a blackman's special burden on his back...
Though his name was mentioned by some observers early in the 15-month search for a successor to Dodds, Goheen's selection surprised most of the University. As the Trustees' executive committee explored further afield, according to one source, Goheen's desirability became more and more evident...
...Governor Talmadge, an ardent hunter, was eager to get out into the millet fields. Writer Davidson, a city boy from Baltimore, went along. "I guess," he says ruefully, "I'm the only guy who ever went dove hunting in a grey flannel suit." On the second afternoon afield, "Spence" fired and missed one shot at a dove, gave up and contented himself with watching his sharpshooting host...
Such papers as Sullens' Daily News now run more Negro crime news under bigger headlines than ever before-even when it means going as far afield as Chicago. They spike occasional wire stories that show integration working, e.g., a recent A.P. dispatch about the acceptance of three Negroes at the University of North Carolina. They print and reprint testimonials by Negroes who say that they prefer segregation and ignore Negro leaders on the other side, except to quote them out of context to make them sound like wild radicals...
Raditsa, however, in his own search for new ideas has had to go far afield. In the first issue of "i.e.," Raditsa stated that its purpose was to express "undergraduate opinion," but apparently there is no undergraduate opinion, because undergraduate opinion, because undergraduate articles have not appeared since, with the exception of Raditsa's editorials...