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...Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, a New York City councilman. He has also led several Harlem picketlines, and edits an aggressive tabloid, The People's Voice. Handsome in a gates-ajar collar, Powell makes a hell-raising speech, likes to kiss the womenfolk in the congregation afterward. His secretary says proudly: "All the women love...
Knockout When? Air power will maintain constant pressure on the Luftwaffe up to D-day and afterward. Against a foe who apparently hoards his remaining planes the Allies cannot expect to score a complete air knockout in advance...
...hold miners' wages and standards of living to the lowest possible level. German Busch, the last President who tried to buck Hochschild & friends, slapped him in jail, would have shot him except for powerful intervention reportedly by the U.S. and Argentina. (Hochschild has a convenient Argentine citizenship.) Soon afterward, Busch died (official explanation: suicide...
Absolute Suicide. One fine night Impresario Arthur Judson, Mr.Big of the U.S. concert world, snapped him up as one of the chief maestros of the Judson Radio Program Corp., later a part of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Three years afterward, when Toscanini backed out of a two-weeks' engagement with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Impresario Judson offered the thankless job to Ormandy. Said Judson: "I think it is absolute suicide." Ormandy clicked at once. Immediate result: he was appointed chief conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony. After five years in Minneapolis, Ormandy went to Philadelphia, eventually succeeded Stokowski as chief conductor...
...tradition of the river says that they will see ghosts along its bank. Of these by far the most familiar spirit is "The Main John," old John Glasier. He was so nearly drowned during a log drive that he lost his hair when he was 20 and ever afterward wore a bushy brown wig topped by a stovepipe hat. He never doffed either, even when pulling a key log in a bad jam. He seldom talked except to his fabulous horse, Bonnie Doone, who could travel 65 miles in six hours. Later he became one of Canada's first...