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These were strong words from a paper that only last June looked upon Alabama's Wallace as a hero. But by last week, with the Advertiser's defection, it should have been painfully clear to George Wallace that he had few if any local press champions left.
Heel-Dragging. The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 90 to 2-with only Texas Republican John Tower and Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse voting against it. Morse, although long known as one of labor's most vociferous champions, denounced the railway unions in a scathing Senate speech...
While enjoying consistent success against its Ivy brethren, Harvard also produced two teams of national calibre. The ice hockey team won the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) post-season tournament and was thus crowned Eastern champions. The Crimson sextet also won the Boston Arena Christmas tournament in addition to the...
Harvard's three champions were all repeaters from the year before, when Crimson varsities swept six of the fifteen Ivy titles (there is no championship for heavyweight and lightweight crew). The squads that failed to retain their top positions were football, swimming, and indoor track.
Died. Jack ("Doc") Kearns, 80, boxing promoter behind six world champions, among them Mickey Walker, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, but none so great -or lucrative-as Jack Dempsey, whom Kearns met in 1917, within two years brought to the championship and later used to drum up the first million-dollar...