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Specially arranged medleys, written by Leroy Anderson '29 and John A. Finnegan '47 will continue to be a basic part of half-time presentations this year. At today's game, however, there will be more than the usual amount of drill because Cornell's band is not coming to Cambridge this season...
...first case solved by Finnegan's campaign, but it would not be the last. At week's end, armed with another Sun-Times tip, police arrested a suspect who confessed to the June 1948 murder of Shoemaker John Onesto-Case...
Editor Dick Finnegan of the Chicago Sun-Times thought he had shocking news: Chicago had more murders (326)-one-third of them unsolved-than any other U.S. city last year. But no one was shocked at the paper's story. Said Finnegan: "It was just as if the weatherman said it was going to rain tomorrow." Civic-minded Newsman Finnegan, with an appraising eye fixed on the circulation chart, decided to kick Chicago in the seat of its complacency. Soon, on billboards and in Page One headlines, the Sun-Times (circ. 635,000) was screaming, SOMEBODY KNOWS! Day after...
Chicago's cops got nowhere in their hunt for the killers. Fortnight ago, a letter with a jagged edge was mailed to the Sun-Times. The letter told where to find the gang which had murdered old man Engelhard. Editor Finnegan had the tip checked enough to convince him that it was the jackpot, and hustled it over to the police. Last week detectives arrested four members of a South Side gang, who confessed. Boasted the Sun-Times on Page One: SOMEBODY KNEW...
Four football medleys in the usual style stirred up nostalgia for the fall. Finnegan's Brown and Columbia medleys, particularly, were handled in the Band's best tradition...