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...fourth straight week the Cambridge City Council failed to re-elect John B. Atkinson as City Manager. Atkinson's chances for reappointment within the next two weeks are decidedly slim...
Whitney, who has held the post for two years, succeeded Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 in the position. It is customary to re-elect a man to the Overseers presidency, until his term expires. Whitney completes his six year period on the supreme governing board of the University in June...
Last week, when the Assembly finally passed an electoral reform plan (the 20th considered), it seemed to have made progress. The new plan is designed to keep as many Communists (and Gaullists) as possible out of a new Assembly, re-elect as many Deputies as possible from the government coalition (Socialists. Radical Socialists and M.R.P.). Its basic feature is election by an absolute majority, with local party coalitions permitted. This is intended to give the more plastic center parties a golden opportunity to win seats at the expense of the right and the left...
Happy Chandler just couldn't muster the votes. He needed twelve to re-elect him to his $65,000 job as baseball commissioner; the best he could get from the club owners in Miami Beach this week was nine-the same as last time around (TIME, Dec. 25). The other seven major-league clubs, led by the Cardinals' Fred Saigh, seemed to have won the fight for a new commissioner. The poser was: Who? The owners have until 1952 to settle the problem. They handed the screening job to a committee, told the committee to "take...
...Telephone. Happy was at dinner in St. Petersburg when he got the bad news: the club owners, splitting 8-8, had failed to re-elect him. Happy charged to a telephone and demanded another ballot, but when it was taken he still stood three votes short of reelection...