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Exempted from the antitrust law by a 1922 ruling that it was not engaged in interstate commerce, big baseball has wasted little worry--until now--on the reserve clause. As Chandler put it, the members of the $5000 to $100,000 income brackets can hardly be called peons. In recent years, however, the national sport has received more and more of its income from radio and television. As such, it has now come within the jurisdiction of the interstate commerce laws. And the minor league wages still remain low; Chandler's statement obviously did not include minor leaguers whose paychecks...
...least in part, an attempt to cover its neglect of modern opera, for "Grimes" seems to be the only work in the current repertoire that is less than 30 years old. This is not wholly the fault of the Met, since it has staged several unsuccessful premieres in recent decades; the empty seats in the Opera House Thursday night showed that the responsibility also lies with the public. But the Met has not gone out of its conservative way to convince its audiences that important things have been written since Puccini...
...issue of "radicalism" at the University has again been raised by the prominence of Harvard professors at the recent Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, Griffin explained...
Just why the 'Poon editors feel it necessary to have girls on the staff is unclear--perhaps they think it will improve the humor of the magazine, which, in recent months, has slipped to a position somewhat short of overpowering. Perhaps the dutch tiles with which the walls of their sanctum are lined need a spring cleaning; perhaps they look forward to a gayer decor, with chintz curtains in every leaded window...
...that the student body has almost forgotten its demand for a survey of College food, and lapsed back into appreciation of the perceptible, if minor, improvement in the quality of dining hall food since the recent furor, the Administration has come up with a survey. This is a Good Thing, and about time...