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This week, as the Federal Civil Defense Administration plan for A-day shaped up, it was clear that Godfrey and Murrow will have help in the supply of friendly and reassuring voices in the event of disaster. Other radio-TV personalities are slated to spell Godfrey and Murrow over a nationwide network. Well-known regional stars are scheduled to take over various statewide hookups; metropolitan areas will be told what is happening and what they should do by local disk jockeys and announcers...
Once the reporters had had a chance to take inventory, Christine moved on to a $52-a-day suite in Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel. This week, with Christine safely hidden away "in the country," the first chapter of her memoirs appeared in Hearst's American Weekly. In it Christine explained why (beyond a reported $30,000) she had decided to tell her story in print. It was, she said, to help others suffering in "the no-man's-land...
...Washington last week, pickets with signs-"Commute the death sentences of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg"-kept up a 24-hr.-a-day demonstration near the White House. In New York the Daily Worker filled its pages with shrill protests that "the Rosenbergs must live." Throughout Europe, Communists and fellow travelers pointed to the Rosenbergs as martyrs to "reactionary hysteria...
...headed for South America. This was a clear indication that Lewis was certain of something that most other people could only suspect: that Harry Truman had already agreed to overrule his mobilizer, his stabilizer and his Wage Stabilization Board and to grant Lewis' United Mine Workers a $1.90-a-day pay raise...
...closing came as a shock to Royal Blue's miners, but not to most Southern coal operators. They had expected that some mines would be shut by the $1.90-a-day hike in pay and the 10?-a-ton boost in pension fund payments (now 30?) promised to John L. Lewis' miners. Blue Diamond, which operates nine other mines in the South, closed Royal Blue because the new boosts would throw it into...