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...many obstacles to reporting the news in Russia's satellite Balkan countries that their number has been reduced to a handful. Each remaining correspondent wonders whether his next visa will be renewed. A recent departure from their thinning ranks was the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart who, although his visa was in perfect order, was given 24 hours to get out of Hungary for a straightforward piece of reporting that displeased the Communist authorities there...
...Virgil Chapman, who had ridden into the Senate on Truman's coattails and voted against him practically ever since, was in for a talk on,party principles-and party patronage! (Friendly Republicans were not overlooked. California's Representative Richard J. Welch and Oregon's Homer Angell found a willing presidential ear for their problems-coast shipping, irrigation, public power...
...appointments have been made to the University faculty, Provost Buck announced last night. The new professors are Homer Jakobson, Thomas G. Massaryk Professor of Czechoslovak Studies at Columbia University, who will become Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Hugh M. Raup. Director of the Harvard Forest, who will be Professor of Botany...
Howie Houston is the third best college heavyweight in the East. He was decisioned by Homer Barr, who went on to win the class championship, Saturday afternoon in the eastern intercollegiate wrestling semi-finals at Ithaca, then decisioned Cornell's Bob Clark, 5 to 3, to gain third place. Meanwhile in Cambridge, the Athletic Committee again turned down the proposal to make wrestling a major sport...
...Protestant in Spain today is a second-class citizen. So concludes Pulitzer-Prizewinning Reporter Homer Bigart, who last week reported on a month spent in Spain on his way home from a year's tour of duty in the Iron Curtain countries. Writing in the New York Herald Tribune, Correspondent Bigart, 41, cited some chapter & verse to back up his conclusion...