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...paper. When she asked him for the right to use such famed News comic strips as Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie, he answered: "If you think you're going to get our comic strips for use within our circulation area, you're crazy." In a drafty Hempstead garage she set up shop, using an old press and six Linotype machines bought for $50,000 from a defunct daily. As her first issue of 15,000 papers rolled off the press, a staffer came up to his ink-smeared boss and said that the paper looked "pretty good...
Arnold Gilbert, Bronx, Government; David A. Goldberg, Bronx, Government; Harold S. Levy, Bronx, Social Relations; Paul M. Levine, Brooklyn, Economics; Morton M. Mancker, Codarhurst, Government; Stuart G. Levine, Hempstead, History and Literature; David M. Gerstein, Lawrence, Government; Robert I. Goldman, Lawrence, Economics; Arthur L. Liman, Lawrence, Government...
Math v. Fairy Tales. Last week the university had to admit that it had been the victim of one of the strangest academic hoaxes in history. Yates, it seemed, was not the real Yates at all, but 31-year-old Marvin Hewitt of Hempstead, N.Y. He had never gone beyond high school, had never been to Wooster or Ohio State, and the Christie Co. that recommended him simply did not exist. Why had he taken on another man's name and record? It was, said Hewitt, "a compulsion. I always wanted to teach...
...trotted out another scandal, this one at Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island. Labor bosses, the paper said, have been milking the paychecks of track employees for $345,000 a year; every Friday night, Roosevelt employees who wanted to keep their jobs hastened to a bar in nearby Hempstead and forked out cash tribute to the racketeers.' Some of the payments went for tickets to clambakes, but the rest of the money was simply handed over with no questions and no explanations...
...University of Texas and Calvert, Texas; Charles J. Christenson of Cornell and Chicago; Jerome H. Clark, of Amherst and Darien, Conn.; Arthur P. Contas '52 of Chestnut Hill; William J. Dickson, of the University of Arkansas and Rogers, Ark.; James A. Fowler, of Oxford and Cambridge, and Hempstead Heights, England...