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...storm blew over for the time being. In October, however, it sprang up again. Henry E. Schultz, a Queens member of the Board of Higher Education, proposed an amendment to the Board's by-laws that would bar "subversive" groups from all city college campuses...
Fisher told police yesterday that he decided to take a walk after studying in his Winthrop House room until after midnight. As he crossed the Weeks footbridge, he was hailed by a man on the Cambridge end. When he got near the man, two others sprang from the shadows beneath the bridge and assaulted...
...morning last week a blue sedan, with four detectives aboard, sped down a highway toward the Quebec town of Asbestos (pop. 8,500). A heavy truck pulled across the road and the sedan screamed to a skidding stop. A mob of striking asbestos workers sprang from roadside ditches and hedges. They ignored warning police shots, charged in, beat the detectives with lengths of pipe, chair legs and homemade clubs. For the first time in its three months' strike (TIME, Feb. 28), the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor had turned from its policy of nonviolence...
...November the Sun sprang his series. It named the racketeers who controlled the piers, stole an estimated $50 million a year from cargoes, exacted a tribute for every pound loaded or unloaded, and held office in, or operated through, locals of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Union Boss Joseph P. Ryan let off a windy counterattack that accused Johnson of being taken in by Communist-line reformers. The Sun printed Ryan's bleats along with Johnson's point-by-point rebuttal and went right on blasting...
...conquer" began to gnaw Milton Berlinger no more than five years after he was born in 1908 in a Harlem tenement. He was the fourth of five children of the late Moe Berlinger, a quiet, sickly shopkeeper, and his vigorous, iron-willed wife Sarah (now Sandra). The great want sprang first in young Milton's mother, who helped earn the family living as a store detective. One day she borrowed 20? carfare to take the five-year-old boy to an amateur contest after he had done an impromptu street imitation of Charlie Chaplin. Milton won the contest...