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...first breathtaking news about $100,000 lifted from a University safe reached here recently when the man who masterminded the heist made a full confession in the pages of last week's Collier's magazine...
...Rule the World," Collier's brashly announced, in an article based on an informal poll of members of the Overseas Press Club, are the U.S.'s Harry Truman, Dean Acheson, Paul Hoffman, Walter Reuther and Douglas MacArthur; the U.S.S.R.'s Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov, Nikoli Bulganin and Lavrenty Beria; Britain's Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Winston Churchill; France's Jacques Duclos and Charles de Gaulle; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, China's Mao Tse-tung, Spain's Francisco Franco, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, India's Jawaharlal Nehru...
Died. Neysa McMein Baragwanath, sixtyish, magazine-cover illustrator (Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, McCall's) and portrait artist whose Manhattan studio was once a famed meeting place for artists and writers (Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, the late Ring Lardner, Robert Benchley and Alexander Woollcott); following an operation; in Manhattan...
...Presented the annual $10,000 Collier's magazine awards for "distinguished congressional service" to Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn and Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. (Rayburn gave his prize money to his home town of Bonham, Tex. for a library; Vandenberg gave his to the Park Congregational Church of Grand Rapids, Mich, as a memorial to his mother...
...Publisher Edward Anthony, who spent several hours a day smoothing feathers ruffled by Ruppel, let the dervish whirl for a while. Then Ruppel cooled off and his staff calmed down. Crowell-Col-lier's top management was prepared to string along with Ruppel: in one year, Collier's advertising linage had dropped 15%, and Crowell-Collier's profits had plummeted from $4,866,000 to $2,419,-ooo. For these deep-seated troubles, a drastic cure was needed. Louis Ruppel was about the most drastic remedy to be found anywhere...