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...Senate's Rules Committee would hear the appeal of Louis R. Lautier, 46, correspondent for the Atlanta Daily World. A fortnight ago the correspondents' committee looked over his credentials, found that he also represented 36 Negro weeklies (there is no gallery for weekly newspapers). Lautier protested in vain that more than half his income came from the daily; the committee ruled that his "chief attention" was the weeklies. Lautier hoped the Senators would agree with Griffing Bancroft of the Chicago Sun, who cast the only dissenting vote and called his fellow correspondents' decision "nothing short of outrageous...
...sitting and covered" when raising a point of order during a voting period. Sir Gifford desperately tried to balance a paper on his head. The Speaker would have none of such hat tricks, ruled him out of order. Someone passed Sir Gifford a black Homburg, but in vain. Down went his objection. The guillotine motion was passed by a 289-to-150 margin...
...Prague last week the inveterate optimism of those who regard international sports as international cure-alls was justified for once. An Austrian ice hockey team accomplished what statesmen had tried in vain-to make the Czechs love their former masters...
...flashbulbs popped at minks and orchids and opera hats. Mrs. James Dunn (wife of the Cinemactor, one of the leading players) arrived in a halo of roses and a black satin dress. White tie & tails mingled with business suits, and some sweater-bearing bobby-soxers craned their necks in vain for a look at Author O'Neill (he never attends his openings, and stayed in Manhattan). Ohio's Governor Thomas J. Herbert took his place in a box-and the play began...
...Tigers used a six-man attack at the close of the second period, taking out the goalie in a vain effort to narrow the three-point Crimson lead when Coulter drew a two-minute penalty. HARVARD (9) PRINCETON (2) Crocker rw Roberts Farrell c Van Dyke Feloney lw Elsaesser Preston rd Erdman Greeley, R. ld Arthur Yetman g White...