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Backed by the nervous Foreign Office, Lord Simonds told Lord Russell that his book was opinionated, and its photographs unsettling. If he persisted in publishing it, he would be fired from his ?2,200-a-year ($6,160) government job. Angrily, Lord Russell decided to go ahead, "whatever the cost to my career," and the air was rent with cries of government censorship. Promptly Beaverbrook's Daily Express proclaimed last week that it would publish daily extracts from "the Book They Tried...
...Manhattan, tempers were short as George Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor, announced the firing of Frank Edwards, the union's $35,000-a-year radio news commentator. Reason: Edwards' failure to make clear what was news and what was personal opinion. Commentator Edwards, who sometimes referred to the Administration as "the happiness boys in Washington," and who often seemed more interested in flying saucers than union problems, promptly cried censorship...
...privilege of living in one of the New Deal's three Government-owned utopian "planned communities," residents had to do much of the planning themselves. Abraham Chasanow, a $1,800-a-year clerk in the Navy's Hydrographic Office, found this out soon after he moved his family into a six-room, $36.50-a-month row house in Greenbelt, Md. in 1939. For 13 years Chasanow worked hard at his civic responsibilities. His hard work eventually led to serious trouble: last July the Navy suspended him as a suspected security risk. Chasanow, now 43, decided to fight...
...Crooks, who declined renomination. A partner of the investment firm of Dean Witter & Co., and a governor of the Exchange since 1949, Scott has been a leader in the Exchange campaign to sell the public on the advantages of stock ownership. George Keith Funston continues as the $100,000-a-year president and chief executive officer of the Exchange...
...Jersey, former Representative Clifford Philip Case resigned as the $40,000-a-year president of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic to file for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. Case, who built a good record during his five terms in the House and was a key man in the Eisenhower preinauguration organization in 1952, stands a good chance of unseating ineffective Senator Robert Hendrickson in the G.O.P. primary...