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Supper that evening was served in a private dining room; athletic teams usually eat in the large hall with the rest of the midshipmen. At supper a telegram arrived, signed by William J. Bingham, the Harvard director of athletics, stating that Alexis was not to dress or play against the Naval Academy...
...three courses: either the team would voluntarily bench the colored player, or Navy would forfeit the game if Harvard insisted on his playing, or Willson would call up Harvard's officials and let them make the decision. The last alternative was taken, and a few hours later a telegram came requesting the negro not to play...
Said he to a World-Telegram interviewer, week before the Met closed...
Sympathizing with the workers in the Bethlehem Steel Strike, the Harvard Liberal Union's executive council sent a telegram last night to the District Director of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee congratulating the strikers for making just demands to remedy unfair labor practices on the part of the company. The Liberal Union has fully supported the national defense program, but resents the use of troopers to break up what it considers a perfectly justifiable strike...
Died. Pitts Sanborn, 61, music critic for the New York World-Telegram and dean of Manhattan music reviewers, program annotator for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society, author of two novels and many books on music, radio commentator and authority on opera; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...