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Keith decisioned Bruce Allen (Cornell), 4-0, in the afternoon preliminaries but was pinned by peen State's defending class champion, Homer Barr, with a key hold at 3:50 last night...
...Steel Corp., which last week reported a record net of $99.3 million for 1949 (v. $90.3 million in 1948), was not satisfied that it was making enough. "To keep its existing plant and equipment efficiently producing by replacing and rebuilding worn-out and obsolescent capacity," said President Arthur B. Homer, "Bethlehem should, on the average, procure at least $117 million each year." Added National Steel Corp.'s Chairman Ernest T. Weir: "Management men are not price gougers...
People came by the hundreds and then by the thousands. They came from as far away as New Orleans and Oklahoma City, over a million of them. They trampled Homer's grass. They tied up traffic for 20 blocks. Old people came in wheelchairs and one man in an oxygen tent. Sometimes they called up Homer at 3 a.m. to ask him to turn on the lights. "It was worth it," says Homer, "to watch parents with tears in their eyes explain the Christmas story to their children. One little boy told his mother he didn't want...
...Bright. Homer would not be moved. "This year I'm going to make it ten times bigger than ever before," he announced defiantly. "I'm going to add angels in fluorescent lights." There would also be 13 more sheep, another dog and shepherd and 1,500 more lights. Blizzards of mail came from supporters, urging him to be steadfast...
...city doesn't stop football games, do they, just because of the crowds and the noise?" cried Homer. "The people that come to see our scene just stand there quiet and reverent and they don't drink or shout." The city gave up. Said Mayor Wallace Savage: "We can't just pass a law to stop it. Many people would think we were being antireligious...