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...CRIMSON rolls into New Haven after a banner year, including victories over the Harvard Lampoon, Radcliffe's Briggs Hall, and the Crimson Printing Company "Pressmen...
...export strategy was a desperation maneuver by pressmen of John S. Knight's Miami paper, the Herald (circ. 336,211). When the pressmen's contract expired earlier this summer. Knight coldly pointed to their high overtime record (an average $8,700 a month since January), proposed a modest pay hike if the pressmen would agree to shave the overtime. When the pressmen walked out on Aug. 1, Knight was ready for them: he sent in an emergency press crew, and the Herald never missed an issue...
Frustrated at home, the pressmen sent picket contingents to Akron, where Knight publishes the Beacon Journal, and to Charlotte, N.C., where he has two papers, the News and the Observer. The union emissaries failed in both cities: local pressmen ignored the picket lines. But when another six-man Miami team reached Detroit, the Free Press's sympathetic pressmen walked out, and the paper closed down...
...highlight in the evening for story-starved pressmen was the appearance of a nude visitor during the intermission of the Glee Club-RCS concert in Mem Hall. Dripping wet, the man wandered in muttering "everybody's dreaming, I'm not really here." Some 'Cliffes thought it was colorful...
...capacity crowd at the IAB will include 1000 standees, 50 working pressmen, several film cameramen, and 400 Yale rooters. The meet will be filmed by movie newsreels and by the Harvard and Yale Departments of Athletics...