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...Health Organization, designed to be the United Nations' family doctor,* was looking a little peaked last week. WHO's chief supporter, the U.S., decided that it was tired of paying doctor bills. The House Rules Committee tabled indefinitely a bill that would have made the U.S. the 24th permanent U.N. member of WHO. Georgia's Committeeman Eugene ("Goober") Cox explained: "It was a manifestation of impatience with the U.S. joining these joint enterprises and then paying the full bill...
...after the House committee's turndown, Russia became WHO's 24th permanent member. It was the first specialized agency Russia has joined, the only one the U.S. has not joined. When two more nations join, the "interim commission" will become a permanent agency...
...Bronx's 24th Congressional District fronts on the filthy, fast-running East River. It is a disheartening area of crowded walk-up tenements, blackened, blind-walled factories and littered streets. Its population is about 55% Jewish, 18% Negro; Irish, Italians and Puerto Ricans make up almost all the rest...
Until last week, Bronx Democratic Boss Ed Flynn's machine had controlled the 24th District with professional ease. In 1946 Flynn sent his man to Congress with better than 15,000 votes over his nearest opponent, the American Labor Party candidate. Then Flynn's Congressman moved up to the New York Supreme Court bench and a special election was called to fill his seat...
Last week, on the huge, red-draped stage of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, before hills of spring-hued paper blossoms, Stalin was very much alive. The ceremonies hon ored the 24th anniversary of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's death (Stalin, at 68, has now outlived Lenin by 15 years). Surrounded by assorted party bigwigs, Stalin listened to his new Agitation and Propaganda chief, tousled, turbulent Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, make his maiden speech. It was a right promising debut. Said Suslov...