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...Brennan, NEA's Ward Cannel and Las Vegas TV Reporter Alan Jarlson were herded into a filthy jail and held incommunicado for nearly ten hours. Miami TV Cameraman Ben Silver was imprisoned for four days. Three other newsmen, including the New York Times's Homer Bigart, were picked up but quickly released...
...team that had produced only six hits in tying Tufts the day before, it was a morale-boosting afternoon. First baseman Frank Saia rapped out five safeties in as many at bats, Tom Bergantino blasted a homer in the varsity's eight-run eighth, and perhaps most encouraging of all, Kent Hathaway connected for three timely singles to knock in five Crimson runs...
Bergantino smashed his line drive homer to center for two runs a moment later, but by that time it was all anti-climax...
...more serious type appears to be much greater now than in 1949 or 1953-54," because pent-up demand has been filled. But there was no such agreement among businessmen themselves. The steel industry, in fact, is cautiously optimistic, feels that it has reached the bottom. Said Arthur B. Homer, president of Bethlehem Steel: "Sizing up all the factors, I've felt better about things in the last week. We see some signs already that may mean we will be at a better rate soon. When people regain confidence, when they decide the turn has come...
...President. In 1942 Barker could have made his speech all over again. That year three economists were dismissed from the faculty for having criticized a business crusade against the 40-hour week during the war as a cover for the antilabor views of Texas capital. In 1944 President Homer Rainey bluntly charged that one regent had demanded the heads of three facultymen because they had passed a scholastic rule that made his two sons ineligible for football. Another regent wanted to subject all teachers "to a patriotism test in the form of a questionnaire prepared by himself." As a result...