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...bright lights, and permitted himself a rare extravagance: he and the seven other members of a special Senate committee were about to start work on a "stupendous" job. Lawyer McClellan was not far wrong. The job: investigating labor racketeering. The starting point: the mighty (1,400,000 members) International Brotherhood of Teamsters and its activities in the Pacific Northwest, home bailiwick of Teamsters' President Dave Beck (who was conspicuous last week by his continued sojourn in Europe). Prospect: the juiciest congressional hearing of the year...
...Also received last week by WGN: a George Washington medal from the Freedoms Foundation, for a program on interfaith brotherhood...
...year, then joined another Roman Catholic order, the Brothers of Christian Instruction, in Maine. The brothers warmly welcomed such an esteemed professional as "Dr. Hamann." dubbed him Brother John. As Brother John, he met a young doctor named Joseph C. Cyr, helped Cyr treat a member of the brotherhood for rheumatoid arthritis (bee venom, suggested Ferdinand with professional aplomb...
...junior. Cardinal Griffin was ailing for years,* and when he died last August, Godfrey was his obvious successor. At Westminster Cathedral's three-hour ceremony of enthronement this week, he pointed out that the Communist denial of God's fatherhood "means in effect the denial of the brotherhood of mankind." In Britain, "which is professedly Christian . . . in many ways men have gone aside from Christ's teaching . . . Who would say that the ideal of marriage has not steadily deteriorated? ... It will be my firm endeavor, under God, to bring man back to the love of Christ...
Died. Willard Saxby Townsend, 61, onetime Chicago redcap who began organizing railroad porters in 1934, fought to gain employee status for redcaps (until 1938 most were paid entirely in tips), formed the International Brotherhood of Red Caps in 1937, brought his union (renamed the United Transport Service Employees) into the C.I.O. in 1942, later (1955) became one of two Negro vice presidents of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.; of a kidney ailment; in Chicago...