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...Author Levine reports that after the trial a newspaperman, rummaging through a wastepaper basket which held the discarded ballots, discovered that MacArthur had voted for acquittal. In a letter addressed to Senator Wiley of Wisconsin (who had requested confirmation of the story), and published in the Congressional Record (Feb. 19, 1947); MacArthur said: "... Your recollection of my part in [Mitchell's] trial is entirely correct. It was fully known to him and he never ceased to express his gratitude for my attitude...
Asked whether he would accept a Vice-Presidential nomination, Kefauver said, "I am not interested in the second spot. All my eggs are in one basket...
...while at the Dartmouth gym tonight, it looked like the Crimson was off to a good start. Dick Hurley dropped in a basket and followed it with a foul about to give the varsity a quick 3-0 lead...
Hastings' basket came at the close of an eight minute spell in which the lead changed hands six times. For the first 32 minutes of the game, the Crimson had led by varying margins of from two to nine points...
...lead was short lived. With eight minutes to go, M.I.T. star Dmitri Vergun, a disappointment for most of the evening, sunk a hook which knotted the score at 47-47. From then on it was close all the way. A Tech basket with 58 seconds remaining sent the large cowds wild, but Hastings' lay-up 13 seconds later proved the clincher. Both teams missed chances to score in the final seconds...