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...Edward U. Condon; retiring director of the National Bureau of Standards, was given a farewell dinner in Washington last week. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was there, and 400 prominent scientists and officials. The speech Dr. Condon had prepared was a talk on the importance of basic research. But at the last minute he changed his mind, put the address away, and tore into the House Un-American Activities Committee, which three years ago called him "one of the weakest links in our atomic security," but never held public hearings to let him refute the charge...
...nights a week, Ralph Sutton, a gangling young (28) man in horn-rimmed spectacles, ambles across the bandstand of Eddie Condon's Greenwich Village jazz foundry and quietly joins the piano. He may ripple out a relaxed version of It's a Lovely Day Today or wander placidly through Bix Beiderbecke's jazz classic, In a Mist. Then he changes his pace. As Sutton explains it, "When the crowd gets with me, I begin bearing down." Sutton, bearing down on such ragtime standards as Ballin' the Jack or Maple Leaf Rag, delivers some of the solidest...
Coach Norm Shepard expects to start Captain-elect John Stevenson and Ambie Redmond at guard, Dick Lionette at center, and freshmen Bill Dennis and Ed Condon at guard. Opposing what will be a preview of next year's varsity will be guards John Rockwell, Cliff Crosby, John Goldsmith, Bill Henry, and seniors Ed Smith and Jim Gabler...
Wild Bill Davison holds the fort at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street hideaway, with Edmond Hall and Gene Schroeder in the band and Ralph Sutton working the intermissions. Buck Clayton, Joe Bushkis, and Art Tatum are at New York's new jazz spot. The Embers, 161 East 54th. Pea Wee Erwin is at Nick's, at 10th and Seventh, and Conrad Janis is at, Ryan's the last holdout of the once famous 52nd Street...
Yale's razor-sharp freshman basketball team ran all around the Yardling quintet Saturday to rack up an effortless 65 to 47 win. Demcak hooked in 22 points. HARVARD (47) G F P Condon, g 1 0 2 Dennis (C), g 9 9 27 Blodnick, c 1 1 3 Culver 1 0 2 Gremp, f 1 0 2 Parente 2 0 4 Krinsky, f 2 0 4 Steiner 0 3 3 Totals...