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...guild to do business with. But onetime Assistant District Attorney Helfand is too good a lawyer to make a move that the courts are likely to overrule. The odds are that the Managers' Guild is dead. If its members want to stick with boxing, they will have to mend their ways and operate on their own. But, said one guildsman last week, "if it took Helfand six months to decide on this step, how can you expect us dumb guys to decide on an answer in three minutes...
...saved him twice, had now changed their minds. His only sure supporters were Pinay's conservative Independents and the Catholic M.R.P., and the result was a foregone conclusion. "At best, a third-rate funeral," shrugged one Deputy. The obsequies would be short, and the opposition forces of Pierre Mendès-France were gloating...
Traitor to Parliament. When the votes were counted, the majority against Faure was 318 to 218-six more than a constitutional majority of the 622-man Chamber. Only ten months before, Mendès had also been defeated by a constitutional majority, and the constitution provides that the Assembly can be dissolved if two successive governments are so overthrown within 18 months. But no Premier under the Fourth Republic ever has invoked this right, nor any chief executive under the Third Republic since Marshal MacMahon did it in 1877. MacMahon succeeded only in discrediting himself as an "anti-parliamentary traitor...
...everyone from their high school coach to the lowest substitute on their team for their success, Geary O'Leary, a Holy Cross halfback, received the Senior Achievement Award, given to the New England player who shows the most "courage and determination." After breaking that three operations were required to mend it, O'Leary came back to play football again this year only to break the leg again...
...very little concern over this offense," said a 1951 probation report. "For the past couple of years he led a wild life -spent most of his money on drinking parties and women. His mother appears to be a type that has overprotected her son." Yet Jack Graham seemed to mend his ways. Three years ago he married Gloria Elson, a Denver girl, and settled down to raise a family. Last year, when her third husband died, Daisie King bought the Crown-A, a drive-in hamburger stand in West Denver, for $35,000, put Jack in charge (he also...