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...winning boat in the annual 150 pound varsity crew "Hackers Challenge Cup" race crossed the finish line at the M.I.T. dock yesterday a full length and one-half ahead of the second Crimson crew. Bob Foley, freshman stroke last year, stroked the winners, all of whom are sophomores. The race was run over a choppy one and three-quarter mile stretch of the Charles River between the MTA bridge and M.I.T. Despite a 15 mile per hour head wind, Foley's crew finished in good time for this stage of the season...
...pound varsity crew will wind up outdoor fall practice today at 4 p.m. in a five-boat race on the Charles River from the MTA bridge to the MIT dock...
...Persistent labor troubles (rail, dock and coal strikes), which cost Britain 2,000,000 working days in the first five months of 1955, compared with 600,000 in the same period last year...
...Sunday supplement is only a small part of Marshall Field's big plans for the Sun-Times. Months ago wreckers started clearing a site on the Chicago River's north bank near Wabash Avenue. There Field will put up a $9 million newspaper plant, with a waterside dock for unloading newsprint and fast four-color presses that can turn out 112 tabloid pages...
...Labor M.P Bessie Braddock (TIME, May 9), honorary president (she says) of a professional boxers' association. Arriving from the House of Commons by bus. Bessie togged in her usual drab blue suit, swept past the club's haughty doormen, bounced inside to utter some dock-walloper pleasantries. To some of London's uppercrustiest, amazonian Mrs. Braddock announced: "I intend as a reciprocal arrangement to invite Miss Dietrich along to the House of Commons." Society patrons responded with a hoarse cheer so blatant that Marlene, entering in a bit of gossamer so diaphanous that Britain's press...