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Lean, grey-bearded Vernadsky was one of Russia's best-loved scientists; tsars and Bolsheviks alike honored him. He became head of the University of Moscow's department of mineralogy in 1890, at 27; won a Stalin prize and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor; was given a big laboratory of his own in Moscow-the Vernadsky Laboratory of Geophysical Problems.* A fabulous reader, he used more books in his laboratory library each day than all his 50 assistants put together. He founded a Soviet commission on "the history of knowledge," was rated an expert...
...Lots of sock." He took over as $40,000-a-year executive editor two months ago. At first the rumbles were confined to the Herald-American building, where he was engaged in shaking up his staff. Then he got out on the street, in trick headlines. Sample Ruppel banner when the Allies retook a German town: THINGS LOOK BETTER...
...London's Central Hall, Westminster, the organ played solemn music as the Labor delegates mustered for the Party's annual conference. Behind the platform hung an impressive banner proclaiming "A People's Peace." Crowds of young delegates, many of them in uniform, were eager to define policy and state where Labor stood. A general election, Britain's first in nine years, was in the offing. Labor thought it had a real chance...
...Francisco's famed 1934 general strike, labor got a new hero and West Coast business a new menace: lank, leftist Harry Bridges, leader of the longshoremen. From that time on, until the Nazi invasion of Russia changed his mind, no one in the U.S. carried a strike banner more lustily, or scowled more menacingly at U.S. employers than Harry Bridges...
...Winnebago who spent five years at Pennsylvania's famed Carlisle Indian School as a second-string quarterback, squat, copper-colored, greying Charlie Cloud is described as one who "thinks in Indian and writes in English." Thumbing a ride weekly from the Indian mission six miles north to the Banner-Journal office, he calmly usurps Editor Harriet Thomas Noble's desk to pencil his weekly stint on scratch paper, after which he generally cozens a taxi fare home from her. His choice of subjects is limitless, ranging from the weather ("The weather is change wind every half...