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...penalties. The governor said his trouble was caused by accountants' errors, but his explanation did not quiet his critics. Another charge against him centers on five head of cattle from his farm. The animals, infected with contagious brucellosis (Bang's disease) turned up at the Knoxville, Ia. sales barn for regular sale. Beardsley's explanation: a hired man failed to carry out his orders to dispose of the cattle in a way that would not risk spread of the disease. Many Iowa livestock farmers, who rank the spreading of Bang's disease only slightly below murder...
Named by Prime Minister Winston Churchill as new board chairman of the British Broadcasting Corp. (at ?3,000 a year): Sir Alexander Cadogan,* 67, Britain's onetime (1946-50) representative to the U.N. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he entered the foreign service ia 1908 when he was 24, in 1938 was appointed Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In the BBC his first job will be to choose a director-general to replace Sir William Haley, who is leaving in September to become editor of the London Times. Said Cadogan, who has never seen British television...
Major Basketball H--Edward K. Blodnick, Brooklyn; Edward G. Condon, Long Beach, N. Y.; William F. Dennis, Queens, N.Y.; Robert K. Gremp, Webster Groves, Mo.; Forest W. Hansen, Racine, Wis.; William M. Hickey, Nashua, N. H.; Edward M. Krinsky, Brooklyn; Richard A. Lionette, Everett; Gerald D. Murphy, Ames, Ia.; Ambrose J. Redmond, Belmont; John M. Stevenson, Glendale, Ohio; Paul H. Bodden, Northampton...
...Buenos Aires, Maríia Ester, Maríia Fernanda, Marfa Cristina, Carlos Alberto and Franco Jr., the Diligenti quintuplets, dressed up in their party best, joined playmates in giggling at a clown, puffed out 40 candles on a huge cake, then posed for a eighth-birthday picture...
Major Basketball H--Robert R. Bramhall, Fort Smith, Ark.; James D. Gabler, Jamaica, N.Y.; Forest W. Hansen, Racine, Wis.; William M. Hickey, Nashua, N.H.; Richard A. Lionette, Everett, Mass.; Gerald D. Murphy, Ames, Ia.; Ambrose J. Redmond, Belmont, Mass.; Edward B. Smith, Columbus, Ohio; John M. Stevenson, Glendale, Ohio; Robert P. Balderson, Manager, McKeesport...