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...started seven weeks ago and came after union and industry negotiators had agreed on a new three-year contract that would have provided a package of 710 an hour spread among wages, insurance, pensions and other benefits. Thus the strike was as much against Glass Blowers President Lee W. Minton, 56, as it was against the companies. Calling the proposed settlement "the best offer we've ever had in this industry," Minton urged his union to accept it. But by a decisive 63-to-30 vote, local presidents rejected the offer and rebuffed their leader...
Died. Al Kelly, 69, doubletalking comic, who for 51 years delighted all sorts of audiences, prompting conventioning doctors to nod sagely at such prescriptions as "injections of triprobe into the right differnarian" and once inspiring Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton to exclaim: "If ever a man be longed in Washington, you do"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
After all, it was a "happening," and it was happening to them in Paris-just as it had earlier that night when two girls dressed in cabbage leaves whacked onlookers' heads with bad minton rackets, or when the motorcycle charged through the hall like a bull at Pamplona, or when they watched the crucified chicken flopping on the stage until it ran dry of blood...
Died. Sherman ("Shay") Minton, 74, dour former Supreme Court Justice who defended the New Deal ("You can't eat the Constitution") when he was U.S. Democratic Senator from Indiana (1935-41), remained sympathetic to the Administration after President Truman appointed him to the high court in 1949, backing the Justice Department in most antitrust appeals and concurring in the unanimous school desegregation decision of 1954, retiring as a result of pernicious anemia in 1956; of intestinal hemorrhaging; in New Albany...
...Fanny and promptly issued an "order of notice" that "there is reasonable cause to believe that (Fanny Hill) is obscene, indecent, and impure." On March 19, Putnam's answered the order and made it clear that it intended to fight Massachusetts on the issue. Putnam's president Walter J. Minton '45 retained Reuben Goodman '35, a prominent figure in the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, and Charles I.Rombar '35, a New York lawyer who is well-known for his successful work in censorship cases, to defend the book...