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Modestly volunteering the information that he could start a sky-scraping array averaging better than six feet four inches, Coach Warren "Moe" Berg '44 has decided to settle for a first team which reaches a mean height somewhere in the vicinity of a mere six feet...
...Guild's national campaign to get $100 a week for experienced reporters. The first enemy, Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (TIME, Sept. 23), was still shut down and the strike was in its ninth week. Dave Stern was a hand-picked target: Rival Walter (son of Moe) Annenberg's richer Inquirer (circ. 600,000) had countered Guild demands with an offer identical to Stern's, but so far had been left alone. To Guild members, who might also be baffled by the discrimination, the Guild frankly admitted that it considered Stern the softer touch...
...crusader, but a sharp news vendor, emerged from the purge stronger than ever. Until last week, Field and the editorial writers had charted Sun policy. Now two of the five editorialists are gone, and the new board will do the navigating. Dimitman, who learned his trade under the late Moe (Daily Racing Form) Annenberg on the Philadelphia Inquirer, is on the board...
Contact! In Manhattan, Moe Rothenberg, learning to drive, started the car on a crowded lower East Side street, drove ten feet, knocked down a baby carriage, pinned a man and the baby under the car, injured four others...
...bartender named Moe Green, hired to mix drinks for the Hunter College lounge, promptly invented a UNO cocktail (vodka, French vermouth, Swedish punch and a dash of orange bitters.) "It's a beauty," said Moe. "It'll make sour tempers sweet, and have 'em all talking the same language-if they can still talk." One Joe Forestieri, proprietor of a Bronx hash-house called the College Luncheonette, prepared to re-name it UNO Joe's. He explained carefully: "You could take it in two ways." Gate crashers schemed to get into UNO meetings with a vigor...