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Byers told a bankruptcy court that the Senator had lost $5,500 shooting craps with the witness' son, Bob Jr., but had brazenly welshed on the debt. He also said that he helped McCarthy write the famed pamphlet on housing regulations for which Lustron Corp., a now defunct outfit which set RFC back $37.5 million, paid the Senator $10,000. McCarthy never coughed up a cent of that, either, said Byers...
...outfit, composed of regular Harvard bandsmen as well as summer students, has rescheduled their Yard debut for next Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Sever Quadrangle...
...take draftees, not because it needed them, but because so many tough young men volunteered that the other services felt cheated. The Marine Corps fixed it so that draftees could specify their choice of service; a sergeant could still snarl at a boot: "Nobody asked you to join this outfit, bub." Now the Marines had to go begging. The Marines would presumably still have the right to wash out anyone who couldn't stomach the rugged training. But the sad fact these days, said one Marine major, is that there are just "not enough glory hunters" any more...
...their event they call the competition "very rough." Entering officially for the Union Boat Club down-river from Weld Boathouse, they say the "outfit to beat" will come from the Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia. This shell will be manned by Owen J. Tolland and William Knecht, one an Olympic and one a previous national champion...
...wins the court battle, Bunin's $1,500,000 Alice will be barred from U.S. exhibition until 18 months after Disney releases his $3,000,000 Alice. To Disney's contention that Bunin's competing Alice would cause "irreparable damage" to him and RKO, the Souvaine outfit blandly replied: "Actually, it is healthy for the industry to have two entirely different conceptions of a beloved classic appearing at approximately the same time . . . We believe that the public is entitled to see either one or both. We doubt that the name 'Alice in Wonderland...