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...years the Big Six-as Powers' local boastfully calls itself-has never before led a New York strike. But last Dec. 8. without even bothering to notify the other six printing craft unions. Powers pulled his men off the morning Times and the News, the evening World-Telegram and the Journal-American-the four Manhattan dailies that he deemed sufficiently prosperous to endure a lengthy siege...
Uncomfortable Awareness. Technically, the union was striking against New York's four strongest papers-the morning Times and News and the afternoon Journal-American and World-Telegram. Ostensibly, the union's agreement to permit the morning Herald Tribune and Mirror and the afternoon Post to continue publishing was based on the idea that this would allow New Yorkers to get something in the way of news to read. But behind this action was the uncomfortable awareness that the Post and Mirror are primarily too weak financially to withstand a strike of any duration. The publishers saw the four...
...ECAC handed down their new decision allowing the Harvard star to play at 2:30 yesterday afternoon. The telegram from George Shiebler, secretary of the eligibility committee of the ECAC, to Dean Watson reads: "The ECAC eligibility committee today voted to restore the eligibility of Eugene Kinasewich...
...were more than understandable. However, what are these but minor objections compared to the ABC "Political Obituary of Richard Nixon," which saw Alger Hiss himself displaying the unbelievable presumption of sitting in judgment of Mr. Nixon. As Senator Thomas Dedd of Connecticut, a liberal Democrat, commented in a protest telegram to ABC and the FCC, "It seems to me incredible that millions of viewers who tuned in to see a Veterans Day program about our armed forces should have been treated to the spectacle of a distinguished American public servant being vilified by a convicted perjurer." Yet Mr. Schwarts...
...Nash asks for a show of hands: how many people at least don't want to invade Cuba? Most of the audience seems agreed--except, of course, those freshmen. Telegram blanks are handed round by the Tocsins. The freshmen march outside, their black umbrellas aloft, chanting in unison, "We have secured peace in our time." "Well," says one boy walking home, "it was a choice between this and the Bob Hope Show --and I'm glad I came to this...