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...suit revived rumors that Robin son has been aching to square off with Winchell ever since the columnist declined to take him to the Stork Club, a favorite Winchell haunt, some years ago on the ground that Negroes weren't welcome there. But Sugar Ray insisted he was not nursing an old grudge; he was only defending his honor. As for Columnist Winchell, he kept unprofessionally mute. And the Hearst organization struck a public posture of unconcern. "If Robinson's going to tangle with our lawyers," said National Editor Frank Conniff, "then he's got more money...
...Boston Arena Christmas Tournament during the week between Christmas and New Year's is a round-robin affair with three national powers and Harvard. Michigan, the Crimson's first opponent on Monday, Dec. 28, has already beaten Denver, the pre-season pick as the best team in the nation, by a 3-2 count...
Slave Trade in the World Today is an Italian-made documentary that pursues its righteous ends with unseemly gusto. It begins in almost Biblical solemnity, citing the U.N. declaration that "slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms." Next, Novelist Robin Maugham, nephew of Somerset, reports that he himself bought a slave in the Sahara for $105 and set him free. And who is to blame for the traffic in human beings in Africa and the Middle East? Who else but the U.S., which, Maugham says, cares only for her "vast oil interests. Britain does nothing...
Pressing the veterans is junior Dave Benjamin, the Crimson's number one tennis player and another non-squash player before he came to Harvard. Benjamin won a round-robin tournament for the number six spot over Peter Brooks, who saw enough action in spots last year to win a letter...
...Chicago's oldest, still shops in small, exclusive local stores, is so socially secure that she found it "quite amusing" to encounter another woman wearing the identical gown at a recent ball. Mrs. Michael Butler, 31, third wife to her second husband, a millionaire sportsman (Manhattan's Robin Butler was his second) keeps busy with two daughters (by No. 1) and a ten-month...