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Feather Beds. The ICC's 6-to-4 decision split the commission itself wide open. Though ex-Chairman J. Haden Alldredge voted for the raise, he warned that the railroads "certainly may be pricing themselves out of the market." He thought that the roads would be smarter to cut their fares and go after more business, and cited the example of the Central of Georgia, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Southern Pacific, which had boosted traffic by doing just that...
...Hiram Parke's party were such art patrons as Gypsy Rose Lee, Actress Madeleine Carroll, and International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas J. Watson. Last week many of the guests returned for the first sale in Parke-Bernet's new auction room (seating capacity 600). Up on the stage went 61 paintings by Rubens, Romney, Hobbema and others; when the hammer fell on the last of them, a total of $46,690 had been paid out. On succeeding days there were sales of jewelry once worn by James B. ("Diamond Jim") Brady, paintings and sculpture collected by Cinema...
Harvard's Combined Charities Drive will spurn the large national charities this year, and concentrate instead on student-aid organizations, publicity chairman Marvin S. Eiger '51 announced yesterday...
Price echoed the views of Representatives Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the committee, and Paul J. Kilday (D-Tex), another key member. He explained that the major opposition to the draft came from Congressmen who were afraid of a peacetime...
Senator Millard Tydings (D-Md.) chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, was away from Washington yesterday and couldn't be reached for comment...