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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treasurer Herbert C. Paschen (rhymes with fashion)-hand-picked by Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley to run against Stratton this fall. The Chicago Sun-Times, sniffing for new leads in the Hodge case, fingered the county treasurer's chief deputy, John E. Sullivan, for suspicious connections with two banks through which Hodge had done his double-dealing. Paschen fired the man. Then the news paper revealed the existence of a Herbert C. Pashen Employees Association "welfare fund" in the treasurer's office-made up by contributions from banks where county money was on deposit. Some...
...debate, the phrase "federative status" is a new euphemism for an independent republic of Algeria attached to France only by the same kind of loose ties that hold the British Commonwealth together. The colonists in the Hall of Spectacles could scarcely believe their ears. The doctrine L'Algerie, c'est la France had lost its greatest exponent. And clearly, France's top military man was admitting that the rebellion could not be put down and the old order restored by military repression...
...Russian gold-medal winner at the 1952 Olympics, cased the shop windows along Oxford Street with an eager eye, for Nina always tried to make the most of her bulky (185 Ibs.) charms. Like her movie namesake, Ninotchka, she was fascinated by bourgeois hats. The cut-rate merchandise at C. & A. Modes, Ltd. seemed just what she wanted: among the 305. felt flowerpots, the cheap berets, the fluffy wool stocking caps there must be a creation that would be the envy of her home-town friends in Sverdlovsk (pop. 550,000) on the eastern slopes of the Urals...
...months ago, Tix announced that another new steelmaking process had been developed-"electric-resistance heating," whereby an ingot can be heated to 1,000° C. in 60 seconds. The main advantage: quick, even heating prevents air from damaging surface, speeds up production...
Estate Wagon. In Newark, attorneys for the estate of Miss Lucine Lorrimer, who bequeathed Neighbor William C. Yarnall a car of his choice in her will, sought in court to have Yarnall's choice ruled out in favor of a "more conventional" model after he picked out an $18,700 British-made Bentley...