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Major General William M. Hoge, 57, commander of IX Corps: West Point, 1916, M.I.T., 1922; with U.S. Army engineers in France during World War I; organized construction of Alcan (Alaska-Canada) highway, 1942; commander 9th Armored Division unit which captured Remagen Bridge, 1945; this week took the post made vacant by the death of Major General Bryant Moore (see above) whom he had succeeded in 1948 as U.S. commander at Trieste...
...been considerable speculation recently about when that boy will arrive again. Well, a friend of his reported yesterday that it won't be for some time. In the next two weeks the Oversoers' sub-committee on Who Will Be the Next Athletic Director will screen candidates for the now vacant position. When it reaches a decision, it will try to sign the man to a contract and if he should accept, our little boy will appear early in April...
...eleventh, but Jake, truculently determined not to be counted out, had warned the referee beforehand not to intervene. At 2:04 of the 13th, as Robinson was beginning to show an obvious distaste for the one-sided slaughter, the referee stopped the fight. The finish found a pulp-faced vacant-eyed Jake LaMotta backed to the ropes and holding on-but still on his feet...
...second floor of a shoddy building surrounded by vacant lots and tattered billboards, two men and a woman have dedicated themselves to giving Dogdom an education. They realize the era is passing when dogs are judged on beauty rather than intelligence. Today, the untrained barkers, chasers, and nippers are outcasts, while the educated canine is acceptable everywhere. The school's slogan proclaims: "Modern Living Requires it...Goodwill of Neighbors Demands...
...failing to produce their man. Since they had similar ill-luck with William E. Du Bois on Monday night, even their own followers must be getting disappointed. We say, give us your dissenter to listen to or to heckle, but leave us not to sit staring at a vacant blackboard for two hours...