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...boasted" about G.O.P. fund-raising for Estes Kefauver. In Manhattan Tex McCrary explained that he had merely commented at a private dinner: "I hear some Republicans helped Kefauver in Minnesota." Tut-tutted Kefauver: "Mr. Stevenson, of course, knows nothing of any Republican money. Apparently he is building up alibi...
...Irked by the advance alibi making of some of the critics who fear that Russia's state-subsidized athletes may whip the U.S.'s expense account amateurs at the Olympics in Australia next November, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage, world's No. 1 defender of pure amateurism, sounded off. "Champions are not made by subsidies or training camps but by diligence and intelligence ... It is not the strength of other people that we in the U.S. need fear. It is our national complacency ... If Russian success in the Olympic games arouses us ... it will serve...
...Absolutely No Alibi." Not until a few days before the primary did either side sense that Kefauver was gaining. Only two days before the primary, Governor Freeman predicted that Stevenson would win by "somewhere between a two-to-one and a three-to-one majority." A day before the vote, Stevenson-lining Columnist Doris Fleeson wrote: "If Stevenson loses or is badly damaged, he has absolutely no alibi...
People whose names fall between A and M register from 1 to 3 p.m., followed by N to Z from 3 to 4p.m. Anyone may register from 4 to 5p.m. Those who fail to report must pay a fine of $10 unless they can produce an extraordinary alibi. "Only an 'act of God" will be considered as a valid excuse," Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of the College said yesterday...
...eleventh member of the gang, took the pea jackets, caps, false faces and about $100,000 in new and traceable currency away to burn, and the others dispersed (McGinnis, the gang treasurer, had spent the evening in a restaurant, talking to a detective and establishing a foolproof alibi). Two months after the crime, police found the remains of the truck, carefully minced by an acetylene torch and buried in a dump near O'Keefe's home...