Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only consolation for coaches still brave enough to play Notre Dame was the fact that Leahy would lose six ends, four tackles and assorted other stars by graduation after this season. But that did not make life much brighter for coaches and players at Michigan State, North Carolina, Iowa, Southern California and Southern Methodist. They still had to play Notre Dame this year...
...Rader, professor of philosophy at the University of Washington. Before the state legislature's Committee on Un-American Activities in July 1948, Melvin Rader had been labeled a Communist. His accuser, ex-Communist George Hewitt, charged that Rader had attended a secret party school near Kingston, N.Y. for six weeks in the summer of 1938. Rader's reply was a detailed denial: he was not a Communist, and he had spent the summer of 1938 in Seattle and at Canyon Creek Lodge, a nearby Washington mountain resort...
...closed shop in operation. Many newspapers agreed; the Chicago publishers refused, and the I.T.U. struck. To test the legality of the printers' policy, the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association filed separate suits against the I.T.U. before the National Labor Relations Board. Last week, six weeks after the Chicago publishers had won the strike (TIME, Sept. 26), the NLRB unanimously ruled that the "conditions of employment" were illegal. They were, said the board, a "bargaining strategy... to effect the exclusion of non-union men, squarely in conflict with the [Taft-Hartley] Act." The board ordered...
Select Club. Dr. Waksman lives in the same modest six-room house that he has lived in for 25 years. He manages to make clothes look shapeless and still wears high-laced black shoes. His only son, Byron Halsted Waksman (30, and an M.D.), is on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Waksman and his wife often go to concerts in New York (Mrs. Waksman likes the more serious works; he likes "musical music...
...Kermit Bloomgarden & Gilbert Miller) is a young Spanish officer sent to Venezuela in 1812 to help capture Bolivar. Actually, the idealistic Montserrat is helping to hide him-and known to be. Aware that torture will never make Montserrat talk, his ruthless colonel adopts a crueler course: he collects six innocent townspeople who are to be shot unless Montserrat speaks up. Montserrat, though horrified, refuses; and a long, harrowing ordeal begins...