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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary Sangenino, 52, of The Bronx, had troubles too. She got on the subway with a box of cookies and a brown paper bag containing her life savings-$12,500 in bills. Then she got so interested in a comic book that she left the bag behind when she got off at New Lots Avenue, Brooklyn. That was the last...
...asked newsmen and their editors to suspend judgment until Vaughan had himself testified. Most of the hearings, he went on, had been held behind closed doors, "particularly if they were friendly to General Vaughan...
...Papa." To union members, David Dubinsky is known fondly as "Papa" behind his back, as "Dubinsky" or "D.D." to his face. Waiting to see him in the reception room of his sumptuous office, the visitor does not have to be told when the boss goes by. The door flies open explosively and a stubby little man in slacks and sport shirt bursts out, waving a handful of papers, spouting orders, and trailing hovering assistants like gulls behind a tug. In moments of repose, behind a blond curved desk that was once Edsel Ford's, Dubinsky squirms with...
...monastic. Born in Goldfield, Nev., he was originally trained as an architect at the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After two years as a practising architect the new "pater" left his drawing board for the ministry, now has 15 bustling years in Midwestern parishes behind him. In the last eight years he has swelled his Madison, Wis. congregation from 600 to 1,500, housed the overflow in a streamlined Quonset-type chapel which he helped to design. When Kent trustees began looking for a "live-wire with a soul" to head Kent last spring, they...
...President Charles L. Bennett, is a series of five mirrors mounted on rubber cushions in a metal frame, which can be attached to the molding atop the windshield. With a mirror surface of 70 square inches and a 180° arc of vision, a driver can see cars behind to the right & left as well as straight back. Bennett said he had already booked orders for 131,000 mirrors. Retail price...