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...placed on waivers for the purpose of giving him his unconditional release, Jurak and Brown were sent on option to Pawtucket of the international League...
Glynn was assigned outright to Pawtucket, but, as a three-year major league veteran, may choose to become a free agent within three days...
...managing editor of the young and struggling FORTUNE (1931-35) general manager and vice president of Time Inc. (1935-38) and publisher of TIME (1937-39). After leaving PM, he owned and ran a string of small-town Northeastern newspapers, including the Elizabeth (N.J.) Daily Journal and the Pawtucket (R.I.) Times...
Thanks to a Supreme Court decision earlier in the year, Nativity scenes this season also adorn the public parks and buildings of some municipalities that had ceased putting them up while the issue was in dispute. But the Supreme Court's ruling, permitting the city of Pawtucket, R.I., to erect a creche, failed to settle the matter. Crèche critics, insisting that many of the displays still represent unlawful government sponsorship of church activity, are seeking to severely limit the court's ruling. As a result, the jingle bells of the season once again were interrupted...
...terms, the court has sought in its opinions to "accommodate" religion in state-supported activities as long as the practice does not represent a "real danger of establishment of a state church." For this reason, in a decision widely regarded as a bellwether, the court earlier this year allowed Pawtucket, R.I., to use public funds to erect a nativity scene as part of a downtown Christmas display. The court has upheld laws that have a "secular purpose," like promoting education, but advance religion as a side effect. Many court watchers expect the Justices this term to uphold a "time-sharing...