Word: boss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's boss Communist, had benefited by rest and good doctoring. He moved home from the hospital, "notably improved," 17 days after his shooting by a would-be assassin. But he was going to keep right on resting in private for a while. He asked everybody "not to ask to visit me or to talk to me even for the shortest periods of time...
...give young musicians a chance, Chávez roared back. Hot-blooded, he called his assailant "a veritable calumniator ... an infantile mind." Then, last week, two out of Mexico City's three leading critics jumped in. One called Chávez "a cacique [a corrupt political boss] who dominates all musical roads." Another came to his defense: "He's still the best...
...promise. The Times-Herald, valued at around $7,000,000, was left to seven faithful executives. Overnight each of the seven became a millionaire. Her estate will even pay the inheritance taxes. The lucky seven: ¶ Editor-in-Chief Frank C. Waldrop, 42, who never crossed the boss, became an executor and trustee of her estate. Presiding at the press conference where the will was read, Waldrop told Washington newsmen with elaborate offhandedness: "After this meeting I invite anyone who cares to join me in the bar for a drink. For once the drinks are on the Times-Herald...
...inheritors will remain in their present jobs, with Shelton likely to be elected the boss. How well they will get along without Cissie Patterson to drive them was debatable. But rival Washington newsmen thought the syndicate would make good if its members could keep from quarreling among themselves...
What Makes Louie Run. The man who makes the heart beat is short (5 ft. 5 in.), impish Louie Seltzer, just starting his 21st year as boss of the Press. Seltzer was born in a cottage back of a Cleveland firehouse, the son of Charles Alden Seltzer, an ex-cowpuncher who wrote westerns. Louis quit school at 10 to be a copy boy on the late Leader, became a cub reporter at 18. One day a new building collapsed in downtown Cleveland. Down three flights of stairs from the old Press city room scampered Seltzer...