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When prices dropped after the war, and with them the fishermen's take-home pay (based on a share in the profits), McHugh ordered each boat to limit its catch, in an effort to bolster the market. Crews that disobeyed were fined, or kept on the beach. The Federal...
Baptist Minister John Franklyn Norris, of Detroit and Fort Worth, who once attracted wide attention, even in secular circles, by shooting to death an unarmed political enemy (he pleaded self-defense, won an acquittal), turned up at the Vatican. Norris read Pius XII a statement deploring Baptist protests against the...
Last spring, right after the winter's competition had ended, Ulen took Norris aside--in the much the same way he had taken Franny Powers aside in 1941 just before Powers went on to win the national intercollegiate 220 title. Ulen worked on Norris until the term ended and then...
The effort paid off with another national championship when Norris outswam the 26-man field--recruited from all over the country--at Williams Lake.
Norris, from Winchester and Winthrop House, enters his Junior year this fall. He holds a National Scholarship and is majoring in mechanical engineering.