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Sunday Polyglot. "Jock Whitney is in the Bahamas," said a Hearst spokesman. "Bill Hearst is in Florida, and he's going to San Francisco from there. I don't think there would be a merger without those two around, do you?" Probably not, but all indications are that Whitney, Hearst and the World-Telegram's Jack Howard have finally got down to business and hammered out agreement on issues from staff to space allotment. Hearst's Frank Conniff is slated to be editor of the afternoon paper; two-thirds of the present Journal-Telegram staffs will...
Once each season Harvard's swimmers face a juggernaut loaded with Olympians and contenders for national honors. It's that time of year again, and today at 4 p.m. at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium in New Haven, the Crimson will take on the strongest team in the East--Yale...
Monstrosity Unassembled. Weaver's professional career has been a shining example to U.S. Negroes. After leaving New Deal Washington in 1944, he worked for the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, taught at several colleges, ran a fellowship program for the lohn Hay Whitney Foundation, was picked in 1955 by New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman to be State Rent Commissioner-the first Negro to hold a cabinet post in state history. In December 1960, lohn Kennedy, whom he had advised on civil rights during the presidential campaign, named Weaver director of HHFA-at that time the highest...
Harvard will have a much rougher time Saturday at Yale's Payne-Whitney Gym. The Elis are a far better squad than their 2-7 mark indicates; they gave Penn and Princeton a rough time, and two weeks ago shellacked a fine Columbia team, 88 to 69. Yale has a very well-balanced quintet, with four players averaging in double figures. The Elis shouldn't have much trouble defeating the Crimson by ten or fifteen points...
...will need 2,000,000 more skilled workers than it has today, double the increase of the 18 years from 1947 to 1964. Nonetheless, Negroes are almost totally excluded from high-paying craft unions. "The majority of the 1,500,000 Negroes who hold union cards," says Whitney Young, Director of the National Urban League, "have tickets to do the hardest, dirtiest and most menial jobs that industry requires...