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Both Jack Wallace, who was bested by Penn's Bill McCunney, 3 to 2, in the morning, and Brendon Reilly, who lost a 1 to 0 decision to Princeton's Bob Wolcott after lunch, pitched excellent ball, but the Crimson was able to corral only eight hits in 18 innings of play...
...traditional business, publishing scholarly biographies, monographs on the pterodactyl or .the mud turtle, studies in the. syntax of Middle English or Middle High German prose. But some of them are broadening their lists, and now the young, enterprising Rutgers University .Press has gone streaking off on its own to corral a Lincoln volume for which almost any big-city commercial publisher would have mortgaged his corporate soul. The Book-of-the-Month Club has made it its February choice,* and 500,000 copies are in print...
Bravely, the C.I.O. produced its excuses: native Tennesseans (some 70% of Oak Ridge workers) are traditionally tough to corral; James A. Barrett, top organizer of the A.F.L., had won a hefty head start by wartime control of A.F.L. construction workers who had since moved into the plants as operating employes...
Most of Detroit's industrial workers had long since been corralled by the C.I.O.'s big industrial unions, but there were still plenty of unbranded mavericks on the range. James Hoffa, chief of Michigan's 13,000 A.F.L. teamsters, prepared a new corral: a local of the teamsters' subsidiary Retail Clerks' Union. Then, walking softly, he set out to round up a herd whose grazing habits he had been studying all during the war-Detroit's 6,400 small, independent grocers, meat dealers and their clerks...
...merchants, laundries and dry cleaners, back in the '30s. And Hoffa had learned plenty about trouble himself under the tutorship of Detroit's tough Bert Brennan-a teamster boss he had lately outstripped. Hoffa hoped to prevent a stampede, shoo Detroit's 6,400 into the corral in a body and close the gate as softly as possible...