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Meanwhile, Boston College Coach Snooks Kelley pleaded equally serious difficulties. Center forward Warren Lewis is definitely out of the lineup due to illness, while first-string defenseman Ed Songin's status is still uncertain due to an injury received in the Holy Cross football game last Saturday. Both were all-New England and all-Arena players last year...
Bigger & Bigger. The gross national product in the third quarter of this year rose to a record annual rate of $232 billion up $10 billion since the first quarter. Much of the rise was due to higher prices. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that retail food prices jumped 3.6% during the month ending Sept. 15, reaching a new record high (203.5% of the 1935-39 average) for the fourth consecutive month...
...Debate Council members will attempt to win the College its second forensic victory of the year tonight when they face a Middlebury due in Lowell Junior Common Room at 8:30 o'clock...
...that newspapers, with no ready means of checking many of the stories they print, must rely on the accuracy of the wire services and news syndicates. Yet in 47 states (only Florida excepted), newspapers cannot avoid libel suits by blaming news services for mistakes. Wittenberg thinks a change is due, along the lines of a 1932 Florida decision, which ruled that complexities of modern newsgathering make the news source liable, not the newspaper...
Part of the sluggishness may have been due to a change in Government buying and shipping policy. In the past the Government has frequently committed itself to export large amounts of wheat at one time, then crowded the market-and thus forced prices up-to meet its commitments. Recently the Department of Agriculture won out on a plan of comparatively small, regular shipments (about 30-35 million bushels a month until next spring). Unless the winter wheat crop, which got off to a poor start, fails badly, the Government should have grain on hand to tide the U.S. over...