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...after three more issues of Spec had been put out by an interim board, the still-adamant staff announced that it would discontinue publication until fall, when it would receive reinforcements (returning editors) in its fight against the Council. But the Council wasn't sitting still; it named a five-man panel, including two V-12ers, to edit Jester...
...move to check corruption in handling military supplies, a five-man military tribunal sentenced to death three high officers in the Chungking supply service: Major General Liang Lin (former mayor of Changsha), Major General Huang Yao, Colonel Pao Yunfei. Liang was convicted of "stealing military materials and of squeeze and extortion." Huang was convicted of receiving 4,100,000 Chinese dollars ($205,000 official rate) rake-off in purchasing military supplies. Pao had made 1,400,000 Chinese dollars from a building contract. All three were shot...
...providing for a permanent five-man commission to decide cases of individuals who claim to have been unjustly discharged or denied jobs, was enthusiastically backed by the state's churchmen, the C.I.O., A.F. of L. and a host of other organizations. Said Governor Dewey: "Passage of the bill ... is an historic step. I am happy indeed that our state has led the nation...
Last week in court Miss Berry, 24, had obviously become articulate. She had accused Charlie Chaplin of having fathered her 14-month-old illegitimate daughter, Carol Ann, during a night in December 1942. A fascinated seven-woman, five-man jury-and hundreds of thousands of tabloid readers throughout the U.S.-got the kind of profane love story that the Hays office has not allowed Hollywood to film for years...
Twinkle-eyed, 58-year-old Dean Guthrie recognizes that his five-man jury of the candidate's colleagues is not an innovation. What is new is the way his jury works. Guthrie's advisory committees of five will never meet except on paper, thus avoiding faculty politics and personal salesmanship. Committee members will rate the candidate privately, on a nine-point scale which evaluates, in order of decreasing weight, his: 1) teaching effectiveness, 2) research and publication, 3) university activities, 4) value to the community, 5) cooperation, 6) grasp of his field, 7) general range of interest...