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...Picket's varsity wrestlers will probably suffer their second straight defeat when they travel to West Point to encounter Army, at 3 p.m. today. At Andover. Howie Houston's freshmen, now holding a two-and-two record, will meet the prep-schoolers...
...night of Dec. 27, 1951 fell black and squally over Formosa Strait. Through the choppy waters, the U.S.S. Higbee, a 2,425-ton radar-picket destroyer, steamed cautiously on patrol. Her skipper, Commander Verner J. Soballe, dozed fitfully in his sea cabin. But the Higbee was alert. Men on watch stood by the five-inch guns, and down below soundmen listened intently for signs of prowling enemy submarines...
Orson Welles, who has had his share of curtain boos and offstage hisses, found that his mere presence in an audience could be hooted too. When he arrived at Dublin's Gate Theater to see a play, he was greeted at the theater door by a banner-waving picket line whose signs read "Not wanted, Orson Welles, Stalin's star . . . Dublin rejects Communistic front star . . ." But inside, Welles got cheers when he said: "I am not a Communist. I never was a Communist. I came here to see a play." He also got a character reference of sorts...
...American Federation of Labor officials last night braved the cold to picket the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' new show. "Seeing Red," for more than an hour...
These characters take a long time getting to predictable ends. Labor Leader Norris finds peace of a sort on the picket line, Political Boss Lockwood marries a rich girl who gives him a rough time, and Intellectual Levin wallows through one of the longest nervous breakdowns in literary history...