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...varsity basketball team won two out of three games on its midwestern road trip over the Christmas vacation. By defeating Michigan State, 68 to 57, and Western Reserve, 72 to 68, Coach Norm Shepard's five had already bettered last season's victory total of three games. The Crimson's loss was to Ohio State...
...gesture, the Council has formed a "New England Steel Mill Organizing Corporation" with a capital of $300,000 to promote private investment in the plant. The Council, too, has emphasized strongly that it would not care to have the New England mill merely a branch of one of the midwestern steel companies. Though the local enterprise will need help in organizing from the more experienced steel manufacturers, it will eventually, according to the Council, be completely independent...
...Harvard attendance which has been estimated at close to 100,000 compares favorably to the 23,400 per-game average for 112 schools but is far from the midwestern universities. Michigan is the nation's leader with 291,707 gross for three games...
...musicians have run off after every new craze in jazz, swing or bebop, Wayne King has stuck tenaciously to the waltz. This week, his single-mindedness rewarded with a whopping $200,000 TV contract, the "Waltz King" began a 40-week show for Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) over a Midwestern network (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., C.S.T...
Hero Erik Gorin quits his instructorship at a Midwestern college in disgust at university politics. He takes a better paying job with a machine-tool company, where he buries his ethics and tries to wiggle into a managerial position. But Erik's big pitch is a big flop; his employer outmaneuvers him. So he signs up with the Government as a research physicist, helps split the atom and make the bomb possible. In postwar Washington (and still panting after the big money 5, he is about to team up with malefactors of great wealth who want to kidnap atomic...