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After he became a National Affairs writer for TIME in 1942, Fuerbringer did a dozen cover stories during the war years. Among them : Charles Wilson, Arthur Vandenberg, James Byrnes, Thomas Dewey, Harry Hopkins. The first of his two covers on Harry Truman, published a week before the 1944 election, was widely used as a source when Missouri's little-known politician became President five months later. At different times, he has edited every department of TIME, edited National Affairs for three years...
...York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who declined to testify before the Kefauver committee because it would not appear before him at Albany, decided that a crime probe was a pretty good idea after all, if he was running it. He set up his own five-man crime investigating committee, gave it $250,000 and subpoena power and told it to look into ties between crime and "any unit of government anywhere in the state." He also ordered a special grand-jury investigation of Saratoga Springs, the horsy spa only 30 miles from the governor's mansion where gambling...
...Thus disqualifying the car for use in New York State. Governor Thomas E. Dewey last week signed a bill outlawing TV sets in automobiles...
Spotlight on Saratoga Springs. While Costello considered the consequences of his walkout, the committee turned its spotlight briefly on Saratoga Springs, just 30 miles from Governor Tom Dewey's capital at Albany. Saratoga Detective Walter Ahearn gulped, squirmed, and like to have swallowed his gum under Senator Tobey's outraged questioning, as he admitted that he regularly escorted the night's cash from the downtown bank to two gambling clubs. He got $10 a day for this service, he said, from the Piping Rock Club (where Costello used to own a piece) and $50 a week from...
...could think of half a dozen who fit the bill: Truman, Eisenhower (political affiliation unknown), Chief Justice Vinson, Senators Fulbright or Kefauver, or Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan ("who is coming up fast"). On the Republican side: Senators Saltonstall, Lodge, Duff, Ives, Morse, Aiken, or Governor Thomas Dewey...