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Interviewers who tried to pin down Sheldon Sackett found him as jumpy as a flea circus, and as vague as a summer breeze. He likes crimson shirts and flossy hotel suites, which he roams with Groucho Marxian energy, gulping strategically placed drinks of Scotch, nibbling toast, bawling into telephones, thrusting laploads of handouts on his visitors. The handouts range from his financial statements (sound enough) to his theories about what ails the U.S. press (mostly sound effects...
...Upsala College, East Orange, N. J., Naomi Sylvia Charner, vice president of Phi Omega Chi sorority, turned in her pin because the sorority had refused admission to a Negro student. Retorted a sorority sister: "It's only kindness to keep from pledging a Negro girl. After all, there are so many places Negroes can't go socially...
...half years the editors of the tabloid Army Times never put their paper to bed without a pin-up girl in it. Like their "Gripevine" column, the pretty creatures helped build circulation (now 375,000), and hold it when mustered-out readers had to be coaxed over to the veteran's edition. But an irate letter from Bastrop, Tex. momentarily shook the editors' faith...
Captain Don Louria got the third for the Crimson, in the 165-pound division, beating John Keenan in the process, a man to whom he lost in February. Dan Ray in 145 got a pin in the first round to give the Crimson one point but lost in the quarter-finals as did 136-pound Frank Trinkle. Phil Busby, Jim Conant and Jim Hoard all lost in the first round...
...pound class Frank Trinkle got a freakish pin over the Springfield captain Charles Adams when he caught Adams in an armlock and waisthold on a takedown a 1:16 of the first period. Captain Don Louria got the other Crimson fall in 2:56 of the first frame with a cruciflx hold...