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...grumped Trainer Jimmy Jones. "Why couldn't a fellow have these two horses in separate years?" The two wonder horses-Citation and Coaltown-were the same age (3), had the same daddy (Bull Lea) and the same owner (Calumet Farm). Apparently, each was the other's only competition: it seemed a sheer waste of horsepower to put both of them on the same race track...
This was too much for Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl. Next day, on his orders, about 2,500 National Guardsmen, swiftly mobilized in rural areas, moved into South St. Paul, Newport and Albert Lea, where there had been some slugging. It was the first time in 14 years that Minnesota's militia had been called to keep strike order...
...Elizabeth Peabody Settlement House is preparing Jean-Paul Sartre's "Lea Mooches" for performances in Boston on March 15, 16, and 17. This play, first performed in occupied France, is a yelled attack against Tyranny act in a framework of the ancient Greek city state...
...bigger ban against the record and transcription business. He had gone to Washington to let the House Education and Labor Committee ask him why he had done it. He beamed happily, thumbs in suspenders (see cut), over having beaten the rap in a Chicago federal court test of the Lea Act-a piece of legislation which had been written for the specific purpose of bringing him to trial for making radio stations hire standby musicians. He was also negotiating a new contract with the major U.S. radio networks, a process which involved the threat of a walkout by his musicians...
...week's end the musicians' potato-faced little boss had one more river to cross. He had stood trial in U.S. District Court in Chicago on charges of violating the Lea Act, a law designed specifically to keep Petrillo from forcing radio stations to hire more musicians than they need. The station in this case was Chicago's one-kilowatt independent, WAAF...