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...middleweight Army boxer, Eddie Eagan won the championship of the Inter-Allied game sin 1919. As an Olympic light-heavyweight he won the championship in 1920. At Yale he was U.S. amateur heavyweight champion, and as a Rhodes scholar in 1924 Eagan won his boxing "blue" at Oxford, coached his teammate and pal "The Fighting Marquess" (of Clydesdale), now Duke of Hamilton.* As a successful Manhattan lawyer and a lover of boxing, Eagan won another plum in 1945: boxing commissioner of New York State...
...foremost political refugees, Alberto Gainza Paz, editor and publisher of Buenos Aires' La Prensa before it was throttled by Juan Perón. Next month Manhattan's Freedom House will honor him with a bronze plaque, "in grateful recognition of devotion to a free press and inter-American friendship." U.S. newsmen found Gainza Paz neither bitter nor bowed. "The real democratic Argentina," he said, "will survive." And La Prensa, he added, will also survive: "You can expropriate the machinery of a newspaper but not the spirit. Freedom always wins the last battle...
...well-placed; he is helped out a great deal by a delightfully pastoral musical score by Bonar Gillis. The acting, unfortunately, is less competent. Jane Cruikshank plays the Snopes daughter with a sheepish grin, while Basil Mange is never convincing as the anthropologist-congressman who finally settles the inter-racial strife. "North Forty's" technicolor sheep are wonderfully convincing, however, and they leave the moviegoer with a true sensation of the old West...
Clark drove down to Red Cross headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., for a look at the refugee situation there, then crossed the raging Kaw on the Inter City Viaduct into the melee of flood-fighting Kansas City, Kans. Wrote Clark: "Cars loaded with disaster workers were speeding all over the streets, red lights blinking and sirens shrieking. Dazed evacuees milled around . . . Convoys of ten to twenty trucks would form, load up with sweaty, bare-chested men and, led by sirened cars, rush the new volunteers to the scene of the fight...
Other prominent speakers at the conference included: Edward G. Miller, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter American Affairs...