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Died. David Blair Owen, 51, onetime president of Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., who resigned in 1952 after a New York judge sent five Bradley basketball players to jail for throwing a game but fingered Owen as the true culprit for fostering "illegal recruiting, subsidization of athletes, evasion of scholastic standards, corruption of the athlete, the coach and the college official"; of a beating suffered when he was robbed and stripped in a cheap Washington, D.C. hotel...
...world surplus of cargo and tanker tonnage has knocked the bottom out of the shipping business, plummeted P. & O.'s profits from $29 million in 1957 to $8,400,000 last year. A major culprit in the world shipping slump, says Sir Donald, is U.S. maritime policy, which grants Government subsidies to shipping companies. He complains that Government subsidization of shippers (P. & O. gets no subsidy) "makes it impossible for us to plan operating costs, because it is impossible to form a judgment on what another company will be able to do if that company is receiving Government...
After the incident, San Ildefonso's Father Narciso Seguer wrote to Galinsoga, tactfully suggested that the culprit must have been an impostor using Galinsoga's card. Replied Galinsoga: "The card is mine. To go to church in a Spanish city where one hears, apart from Latin, a language that a Spaniard has no obligation to understand appears absurd...
Tranquil Nude. The first witness was Mme. Zumbach, who admitted that when she was confronted by a line-up of five men in the police station, one of whom was Jaccoud, she had promptly picked a burly policeman as the likely culprit. Her son André followed her to the stand, described his affair with Poupette as "an adventure neither of us took seriously." He conceded that he had already given her up in October 1957 - months before his father's murder - and had become engaged to an other girl, to whom he is now married. Jaccoud...