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Give & Take. Union President Lapidus copped a guilty plea on charges of extortion. Boss Loughran (who ironically had won a reputation for his exposes of rackets in retail businesses) was haled before a county grand jury, fired from his $8,250-a-year job and arrested on charges of extortion. Investigator Kaplan promised that the butcher expose was only beginning. "The protection club was all over New York," said he. "There are 5,326 butchers in the city. You will have to guess at how many were involved, especially in depressed areas, where it hurts the little housewives the most...
Williams and McIntyre are the most likely candidates for Boulris' left halfback job, with Repsher probably taking over at right halfback. Williams is big and fast, and can pass; he sat out most of the season with injuries, but looked good in the Yale game. Mcintyre, the team's best punter, was running almost as well as Boulris for a while against Penn; he too was bothered by injuries this year. Shipman, Damis and Armstrong will be speedy and capable replacements...
Burney put the finger on cigarette smoking as carrying the greatest risk. And he said filter tips developed so far do not do a good enough job of straining out tars...
...outsider, the Office of Sports Information is pretty much a press service," Pittenger says, but to him his job has a far greater significance. He feels that his work does much to shape the public image of Harvard; "everything we do is part of Harvard, and has to reflect its dignity and excellence...
Pittenger graduated from Penn State in 1947, and then worked as an all-round apprentice for the Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin, leaving two years later as city hall and courthouse reporter. In September, 1949, he took the job as education writer for the Hartford Times, and, after a year and a half, moved to the copy desk. Eight months later, "I made a success of myself and became a sports writer...