Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Stanley Walker, the inspiring city editor (1928-35) of the Herald Tribune, wrote this eulogy 20 years ago, New York City was indeed something of a newsman's paradise. Journalism had become a profession, and New York was its university. A New York byline was a ticket to fame, a New York salary the way to fortune...
...back only by concealing themselves inside a popular front. They offered their support to General Katsotas if he would run for mayor of Athens. He was willing. Throughout the campaign the general insisted that he was no Red puppet. Last week, with General Katsotas at the head of the ticket, the popular front swept Athens. The popular front's non-Communists had to shout to make their victory orations heard. From batteries of Iron Curtain radios, the Communists started clamoring for national elections in response to "the demands of the masses," to get rid of Premier Papagos and steer...
...much to help colleges and universities untangle competing scholarship procedures. Furthermore, says Director John Monro of Harvard's Financial Aid Center, the service may cure another evil: "Colleges have tended to educate the public with the idea that scholarships are prizes. Getting one is like having a winning ticket in a sweepstakes. We've been putting money into guys who don't need it, and not conserving it for those...
Spectator Sport. In Pasco, Wash., Motorist Lonnie Stephens took his eyes from the road to watch a man landing a fish, drove over an embankment and almost into the Columbia River, got a ticket for inattention to driving from the fisherman, a state patrolman...
...change from last year's policy requiring students to go to the Athletic Association offices for tickets to some games, undergraduates can now go directly to the Indoor Athletic Building for all basketball games and swimming meets which do not have reserved seats. Reserved seat tickets will be distributed only for events of exceptional interest. Frank Lunden, ticket manager, announced that his office would post notices of such games in advance. Undergraduates desiring to see the particular contest must then pick up tickets at the H.A.A...