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...bill contained just 83 words, one of the shortest ever to be dropped into the House hopper. It said simply that the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts, as amended, shall not be construed to "apply to the business of insurance." Thus, just 17 days after the U.S. Supreme Court broke a 75-year-old precedent in holding that insurance is subject to the antitrust laws (TIME, June 12), the House moved last week to nullify the ruling...
...Women Love Him." Sara Speaks's formidable Democratic opponent is the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who succeeded his father as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Its 10,173 members are reportedly the largest Protestant congregation in the U.S. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and young (35), Adam Powell has been successively a javelin thrower at Colgate University, a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, a New York City councilman. He has also led several Harlem picketlines, and edits an aggressive tabloid, The People's Voice. Handsome in a gates-ajar collar, Powell makes...
...middleaged, with her prematurely grey hair piled high above her 'high forehead, she reached literary work and social reform way of music teaching in a Methodist missionary school in China, secretaryship to a city manager in Georgia, running the swanky girls' summer camp her father founded in Clayton, Ga., and editing a literary magazine...
When she returned to Georgia in 1925 she decided there was enough missionary work there to keep her busy. She tools; over Laurel Falls Camp at Clayton, staffed it with progressive Bennington College counselors. With Paula Snelling, critic and riding instructor, she started a literary magazine, Pseudopodia. In demand as a speaker, gifted with a whispery, well modulated voice, she began work with Southern church groups, also interviewed prospects for the Julius Rosenwald Fund,* changed her literary magazine to the politically conscious South Today, and began to put into practice the new credo of Southern racial reform...
Prime mover is Major Andre Baruch, ex-CBS announcer.* When the Americans hit the North African beaches in November 1942, Lieut. Baruch was aboard ship off Casablanca, telling the French to take it easy. When the shooting was over, he and Clayton Dow, another ex-CBSer, and Houston A. Brown, ex-engineering professor (both are now majors), sat around with not much to do, decided to build a radio station...