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...LIFE OF BILLY YANK (454 pp.)-Bell Irvin Wiley-Bobbs-Merrill...
Died. William Adolf Irvin, 78, onetime railroad freight agent who rose through the ranks to become president of U.S. Steel Corp. (1932-38), helped organize and became chairman of the National Safety Council; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...been known to hurl his stocky, 180-lb. frame toward an enemy goalie with two defensemen hanging from his broad shoulders. What's more, he has scored from just such entanglements-a knack that makes Richard a perpetual target for roughhouse treatment. Says Montreal Coach Dick Irvin: "Never in the history of the National League has a man been subjected to such abuse-or perhaps I should say, attention-from the other teams. They say: 'We have got to go out and stop this...
...Attorney General Howard Mc-Grath sent FBI men to make an on-the-spot investigation to find out whether McCall's version or Irvin's was true. At week's end, a coroner's jury upheld Sheriff McCall, finding that he had fired in self-defense, and a state investigator displayed powder burns on McCall's coat sleeve which showed, he said, that McCall's arm was doubled up, indicating that there had been a struggle. But the FBI continued its own investigation...
...Paris, Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky quickly incorporated Sammy Shepherd and Walter Irvin into his speech to the U.N. Assembly. "This is human rights in the U.S.A.," he cried triumphantly. The U.S., whose constitutional processes had protected the civil rights of Walter Irvin through tedious and careful procedures unknown to Vishinsky's masters, would want a good and careful answer for Vishinsky's taunt...