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...Supreme Court agreed to review the S.E.U.A. case (dismissed last year by the Atlanta District Court), the House Judiciary Committee voted out, 16-to-5, a bill that would flatly affirm the industry's We-Are-Not-Commerce defense: ". . . Nothing contained in the , . . Sherman Act, or the . . . Clayton Act, shall be construed to apply to the business of insurance." The Senate Judiciary Committee is getting ready to report out an identical bill, introduced by Indiana's bespectacled, hard-shelled Frederick Van Nuys and North Carolina's implacable Old Democrat Josiah Bailey. At first blush, the two bills...
Died. Elinor Sutherland Glyn, 78, the sex novel's impeccable grandmother; in London. At 27, red-haired Elinor Sutherland attracted longtime bachelor and coupon-clipper Clayton Glyn with her wasp waist, green eyes, and the social splash she made when four white-tied suitors leaped into a lake at her command. In 1892 (she claimed) he hired Brighton's swimming baths for their exclusive honeymoon use. In Three Weeks (1907) she revealed the effects on each other of a Swiss hotel, a Russian enchantress, a clean young Englishman, and a tigerskin rug. In Hollywood in 1927 she modernized...
From the Tenth Air Force (India) departed Major General Clayton L. Bissell, a year and a day after taking command. His successor: Brigadier General Howard C. Davidson, a West Pointer in Army aviation in World...
Flying 20,000 copies of TIME out over the Pacific from San Francisco is obviously impossible today. The alternative finally worked out by Bernard Clayton (the head of TIME'S editorial bureau in Honolulu) with the Honolulu Lithograph Company has involved the cooperative purchase of thousands of dollars worth of special magazine equipment. But it is a lasting solution which establishes the Pacific edition of TIME as a permanent venture and makes Hawaii a permanent center for distributing TIME by plane throughout the Pacific area...
...father of the late novelist Thomas Clayton Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River) was a stonecutter of great rhetorical influence on his son. Echoes of his surging speech resound through Wolfe's novels. But the novelist's mother, a sinewy woman still living at the age of 83 in Asheville, N.C., was probably an even greater influence. She is a positive personality. "You told me," her son once wrote to Julia Elizabeth Wolfe, "that three great Americans had their birthday in February, and when I looked puzzled you said that you were the third." Readers...