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Stanley E. Tobin '53, president of the Young Democrats, admitted Stevenson's defeat at about 11:30 p.m. roughly two hours before the Governor himself conceded. "Although we are keenly disappointed," Tobin said, "we are not going to toss in the towel in the fight for Democratic principles. It's going to be very difficult if the Republicans gain control of the Congress as well as the Presidency, but we won't give...
...lachrymose Little's trademark, the towel, was in his hands once more when he continued. "Whether we'll ever do that again this fall, I don't know. But it won't be easy...
Little put down the towel, though, when he began talking about the surprising Columbia Princeton game. "To be honest--I was disappointed," he confessed. "Of course, Princeton isn't the team it was last year. But neither are we. As it was played, though, that game should have been a tie, at the worst...
...Senators Paul Douglas and Estes Kefauver, glumly seated on the platform, waiting for the chance to throw in the towel...
Last week, with his auto plant shut down, 65-year-old Powel Crosley finally threw in the towel. In a stock swap, he turned over 317,077 shares (58% control) to Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co. for the equivalent of $63,400, or 20? a share. (Crosley stock, traded on the Curb, promptly fell nearly a point to 1½.) In partial payment of his $3 million loan, Crosley will keep $1.5 million worth of plant real estate, which he will lease back to the rubber company; the balance of the loan will be paid off with stock...