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...CGIL (Confederazione Generate Italiana del Lavoro). From 1944 to 1948 it operated almost as a monopolistic, aggressive state within the state, claiming 6,500,000 members and another 5,000,000 affiliates, using the general strike as a political bludgeon against the government. CGIL's boss was Communist Bigwig Giuseppe di Vittorio, who ran the show with a strong arm and a jealous eye for any non-Communist challenge to his power...
...official residence, "Rydhave," in Copenhagen's northern suburbs, had just been redecorated. A housewarming was in order. Instead of a bigwig party, the ambassador invited the painters, plasterers and carpenters who had remodeled her house (90 in all, including wives). Dressed in their Sunday best, the guests flocked in, shook hands with the American diplomat and her husband, Artist John Anderson, tackled the smörgåsbord, Cokes and aquavit, sang folk songs around the grand piano in the salon, watched documentary movies about New York, baseball and Hawaii. It was 2 a.m. when the party broke...
...life expectancy of the average Communist bigwig went down sharply. Not since the Great Purge of 1936-38 had the leadership of world Communism been so rent by fear and division. No leaders of Western Communism had yet been ousted (see below), but behind the Iron Curtain heads fell fast & furiously. Prime focus of the Comrades' trouble in the Russian satellite countries was Yugoslavia Heretic Marshal Tito, who continued to defy Moscow. But it was also a great year for purges inside Russia, where Georgy Malenkov, the Kremlin's rising star, quietly disposed of the last followers...
Married. William L. ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, 75, beefy boss of the powerful (737,514 members) carpenters and joiners union, A.F.L. bigwig (first vice president), twice chairman of the Republican National Committee's labor division; and Madeline Wilson, 57, superintendent of his union's hospital; both for the second time; in Lakeland...
Arkansas' Governor Sidney McMath, 37, arrived in Manhattan to confer a special honor of his state, the title "Arkansas Traveler," on a Center Point, Ark. girl: department store Bigwig Dorothy Shaver, president of Fifth Avenue's Lord & Taylor...