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...While a blanket of early snow and the all-embracing fear of winter settled over Germany, in New York the Big Four Foreign Ministers were finally getting ready to tackle the question of peace for the drawn & quartered Reich. By last week it was probable that agreement on Germany-the cardinal issue on which the whole European peace depended-would be reached before the winter's snow melted away. Russia seemed finally ready to draw back the Iron Curtain from her occupation zone and to accept Secretary Byrnes's longstanding invitation for joint administration of Germany...
...years, silver-maned, gold-lined Publisher Field had patiently pumped his millions into his losing battle with the mighty Chicago Tribune, and the Trib had neither reformed nor weakened (in fact, the same day the Sun fired 80, the Trib gave its white-collar staff of 1,589 a blanket 20% raise). Field had many millions left, but he was tired of spending them. His ultimatum: the Sun must shine by itself...
...Beatrix discovered "the child's half-real, half-fantastic world of pond and ditch, stone walls and foxgloves, woods and sandy warrens"-side by side with "the crowded informal cottage gardens," the cupboards and dressers, the huge ranges with their pans of dough rising under "an old clean blanket." All these things Beatrix carried back in her mind to London, and, in her own words, "made stories to please myself, because I never grew...
While the lower ranks were granted blanket pay boosts, associate and full professors will get increases under a new formula set up on an individual basis...
...week's end Harry Truman heard some other political bad news. Labor was making good its threat to treat Democrats coldly. The A.F.L. in New York and Pennsylvania had already refused a blanket endorsement to either party. So had John Lewis' United Mine Workers in West Virginia. Last week Dan Tobin, boss of the powerful A.F.L. Teamsters and for many years the Democratic National Committee's labor stalwart, took the same straddle...