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Stores will be classed as independent, chain and supermarket. To end frozen-price inequalities in competing stores and ease the small businessman's position, each store class will be assigned definite markups above operating costs. The markups are to be based on studies (made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) of margins of several thousand U.S. food stores. Independent grocers generally will be allowed wider margins than chains and big markets to allow for difference in business methods and operating costs. Similar controls will be extended to wholesalers...
...short time able, yet defeated, Senator Prentiss M. Brown will reluctantly move into Leon Henderson's hot spot as head of OPA (see p. 13). Massachusetts' able Thomas H. Eliot will head the British Division in the London Bureau of OWL But the list of defeated, deserving Democrats is much longer than three; and the ambitions of some of the candidates are not as restrained as Senator Brown's. California's bumbling Governor Culbert Levy Olson blithely told friends in Washington last week his eyes were lifted toward the Supreme Court vacancy...
...they are only indulging in pardonable exaggeration. Apart from Editor Richard Finnegan (58), its news executives are softspoken, greying Managing Editor Russell Stewart, 33; News Editor Leo Zalucha, 33; Foreign Editor Irving Pflaum, once a United Press foreign correspondent, 36; Robert Kennedy, chief of the Times's Washington bureau...
Into this nest of editorial 3A youthfulness Managing Editor Stewart last week dropped the baby of them all. As city editor, to replace 49-year-old Bruce Grant (gone to London to open a new Times bureau), he named Karin Walsh, 28, who has been Sunday editor for two years. Under him, Sunday edition's circulation has zoomed from 367,000 to 468,000 (last month...
...weird, neutral land of Ireland was in a stew about censorship last week. The censorship had nothing to do with the war. A farmer had complained to Eire's Book Censorship Bureau that he had found his daughter reading The Tailor and Anstey, a translation from the Gaelic of free-style conversation between an old Cork peasant and his wife. The Bureau (four professors, one a Catholic priest) promptly banned the book...