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...career that includes a stint in the U.S. Senate (1939-45) and a notably unhappy period as commissioner of major league baseball (1945-51). Opposing Chandler in the May 28 Democratic primary is Lawyer Edward T. Breathitt Jr., 38, who has the backing of Incumbent Governor Bert Combs. Old Happy is pretty much ignoring Breathitt (pronounced breath-it) and is popping his cork at Combs...
...practice, Thimmesch has been doing a little bit of everything, from cover research on his old Detroit friend, Architect Minoru Yamasaki, to Labor Leader Bert Powers and the New York newspaper strike. And a lot of his time has been spent detailing the anonymous urban frictions of race and poverty. One day last week, at the urging of Senior Editor George Daniels, he set to work to report on Cassius Marcellus Clay for this week's cover story by Sport Editor Charles Parmiter...
Ironically, the biggest obstacle to a settlement turned out to be the union that had not been expected to give anybody trouble-the big but rarely belligerent Newspaper Guild. Even before Bert Powers' printers went on strike last Dec. 8, the Guild had come to terms with most Manhattan papers. But when Mayor Wagner drew up a settlement stipulating that the contracts for the city's ten newspaper unions all lapse at the same time, the Guild got back into the act; its agreement was necessary on any new expiration date. And, said Guild Executive Vice President Thomas...
...each New York newspaper must ratify the agreement, and there was some doubt that all would go along. At the Daily News, Guild unit leaders voted 47 to 3 to advise their members to turn the offer down. If that advice is accepted, the pickets ,will keep on marching. Bert Powers wants a common expiration date badly, and if the Guild rejects it, he said, "all bets...
...Bert Powers, naturally, thought otherwise. "The other afternoon papers," said he, "will not miss the fact that their competitor is publishing." He might have a point. Though the Post's pre-strike circulation was only 327,629, it was expected to run off at least 500,000 papers a day in an effort to pick up readers from the idle Journal-American (circ. 601,625) and World-Telegram (442,936). Powers insisted that Mrs. Schiff would have settled "a long time ago" but for fear of "retribution from advertisers." What suddenly made Dolly change her mind...