Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week, the Vatican added one more exception to its confusing decree and took the heat off the newsboy. He may sell Communist papers, it ruled, if he "acts as the result of the active threat of the unions . .. However," the Vatican added, "he must always have the moral obligation to limit as much as possible his cooperation ... by using small ruses in which the news vendors are experts and which it is not necessary to list here...
...side, that the Herald's series would make it impossible to get a fair trial of the Kestin suit. Headlong, Judge Horrigan promptly forbade the Herald to publish any more stories on the houses, forced it to yank the fourth article a half hour before press time. Last week, after rereading the Bill of Rights, Judge Horrigan decided he had gone too far. He rescinded his injunction, but hinted that if the Herald kept printing such stories it might be found in contempt of court. Meanwhile, the project's builders had slapped a $100,000 libel suit against...
...Army had the word straight from an old West Point superintendent now in Tokyo. Messaged General Douglas Mac-Arthur: "There is no substitute for victory." If West Point's tough, all-conquering football squad needed any further goad last week, it was supplied by pre-game gibes from the Navy cheering section. With President Harry Truman and 102,442 others watching in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, Annapolis banners flaunted some sore subjects...
...other college gridirons last week, the curtain rolled down with bowl bids and sectional championships hanging in the balance...
Boston's Ted Williams, one of baseball's most talented and temperamental stars, stirred up a storm last week without moving a muscle. All he did was to win (for the second time in his career) the American League's award as Most Valuable Player of the year. Boston was pleased, but Manhattan sportwriters erupted with such comments as "greatest farce ever perpetrated in sports in the guise of an official poll." They wanted to know why the award, voted by the Baseball Writers' Association, had not gone to somebody on the pennant-winning New York...