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Last week the American Newspaper Guild's seven-month strike of 24 editorial workers against William Randolph Hearst's Milwaukee Wisconsin News came to a peaceful conclusion. Only twelve Guildmen had stuck it out since the February walkout. In Manhattan, General Manager Harry M. Bitner of the Hearstpapers insisted: "The Wisconsin News has accorded no recognition . . . made no settlement with the Guild. The Guild has simply called off its strike." Nevertheless, many an observer felt that, while the Guild had scored no knockout in Milwaukee, it had certainly won a victory of a sort on points...
Radio Music Co. intends to form a board of musical judges. The classical will be represented by such men as Walter Damrosch, Tin Pan Alley by such connoisseurs as Feist's Edgar Bitner. Anybody who has written a musical composition may submit it. To ensure unprejudiced judgments the board will be kept in ignorance of the composer's name. If a composition is accepted, Radio Music Co. will publish it, NBC will broadcast it, RKO Productions perhaps may make of it a theme song, Radio-Victor will make records of it. But in all cases Radio Corp...
University of Michigan-Forwards, Bitner, Prettyman, Killerlea, Olcott, Beach, Moore, Wright; quarter-back, McNeil; half-backs, Dott and Gemmel; back, Gilmore. Referee, Mr. Mann; umpire for Harvard, Mr. Thacher, '82, for Michigan, Mr. Fowler...
...Rugby team to go east, as chosen by the committee, Olcott, Dott and Hutchinson, will probably consist of E. E. Beach, Bitner, Prettyman, list, Borden, Dott, and Killilea laws, forward; McNeil, lit, quarter-back; Gemmell, lit, and Moore, medic, half-back ; Olcott, lit, three-quarter back; and Gilmore, lit. goal keeper. The substitutes will very likely be Bonine, medic, and Wright, law. [Chronicle...