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...revise the Wagner Act, possibly outlaw the closed shop) party leaders added legislation to head off the economic blitz recently launched by labor lawyers with the portal-to-portal pay drive (see BUSINESS). In the first 48 hours probably a hundred labor bills will be dumped into the hopper...
Dave Farrell tallied first for Harvard, sinking a hopper near the end of the first period. Another goal by B.C.'s Johnny Murphy opened the second period, but Johnny Crocker slapped a pass from Bob Feloney ten minutes later to put the Cantabs back in the game...
...Syracuse, where the players ragged him a bit. Says he: "When I didn't pay any attention, they dropped it." He stays at the same hotel as his teammates in every city but Baltimore, rides in a compartment by himself on trains, gets along well with Manager Clay Hopper, an ex-Mississippian. Robinson neither drinks nor smokes. In 100 games with Montreal this year, he has made 133 hits, stolen 33 bases, scored 100 runs. With him as its top attraction, Montreal's paid admissions on the road jumped to triple last season...
Cissie gave Bootsie a shrewd buildup, decorated the column each week with cuts of Bootsie in a different hat. As madly hatted as Hedda Hopper, Mrs. Cassini has a collection of 50, mostly John-Frederics jobs, sometimes makes her own from pieces of curtain or lace tablecloths...
...girl clerks were gone; and Prince's Gate rang again with the tinkle of party glasses and the blare of a dance band. G.I.s had come with their girls-a few clerks; a few debutantes, and many a "five-shilling touch" from Piccadilly in full war paint. Hedda Hopper of Hollywood was there (in one of her hats). So were Wellington Koo, Sir John (now Viscount) Simon, Lord & Lady Mountbatten and General Spaatz. With cautious restraint, Clement and Mrs. Attlee sipped gin and lemon. Herbert Morrison wandered pixy-like and alone through the garden to the huge refreshment tent...