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...Princetonian plea continues, "For years Princeton partisans have been spoiled. They have expected to see a perfect team, a virtual touchdown-machine, demolish its opponents at will. No team can keep up such a record forever without the sort of professionalism that none of us would want to see. After all, there are other schools in the League, too, and occasionally some of them will have teams that can beat us or even rent...
When a Cleveland Press photographer violated the court's instructions last month by taking a courtroom picture of a defendant whom the Press had helped indict, Common Pleas Judge Joseph H. Silbert charged the photographer and two other Press staffers with contempt for "transgressing the dignity and honor of the court [TIME, Sept. 7]." Last week, despite the Press's plea that the contempt citation was an infringement of "freedom of the press," Judge Silbert found the three Press staffers guilty, fined them a total of $700 and costs. While the Press prepared to appeal, the paper said...
...President Eisenhower went a personal plea from Iran's new Premier, Fazlol-lah Zahedi: "Iran needs immediate financial aid to enable it to emerge from a state of economic chaos." Back went the President's reply: "We stand ready to assist you." Early one night last week, U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson trudged the stairs to the third floor of Iran's rambling Foreign Office, where Premier Zahedi and his Cabinet awaited him, to keep his Government's promise. He handed over a second letter from Ike, which tendered $45 million in emergency aid to Iran...
...Unromantic Law. In Newport, England, defending a store accused of price-gouging, Lawyer B. J. Hayes failed to avert the court's ?7 ($19.60) fine despite his plea: "The boy clerk and girl clerk . . . did not have their minds on their work. They were married a month later...
Slim Chance. In Manchester, England, after Mrs. Maude Mitchell produced photographs to show how her husband's alleged cruelty had caused her to lose 28 pounds in two years, the judge remarked that the loss of weight had enhanced her appearance, denied her separation plea...