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London's Fleet Street produced its own spot of news: Lord Rothermere, 53, publisher of the Daily Mail, the Evening News and the Sunday Dispatch, filed a divorce petition against Lady Rothermere, 38, who did not contest. The corespondent: Ian Fleming, 42, foreign manager of the Kemsley newspapers...
...that expressing dissatisfaction with the regime is high treason in Soviet Russia; 15 million inmates of Stalin's concentration camps, and their relatives left behind, don't share Mr. Smith's view. The author goes on to say: ". . . The discontented have long ago been converted or dispatched . . ." As long as tyranny exists, there will be the discontented, and if the Communists had to "dispatch" (presumably to Siberia) all of them, this would mean 90% of the Russians...
Both benign and autocratic, Ruth Shipley runs her big job-issuing or denying passports to all U.S. travelers, controlling the destinies of 430,000 U.S. citizens abroad-with almost terrifying efficiency and dispatch. Franklin Roosevelt once fondly called her the State Department's "wonderful ogre." For the thousands of troubled U.S. citizens she has helped-servicemen's wives, harried businessmen, hard-pressed students-she is nothing short of wonderful. Her most famous exploit: recovering 300 U.S. passports, first issued to members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and reported lost in battle in the Spanish Civil War. Mrs. Shipley...
...after the explosion, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch charged that the mine management had ignored advice from two federal mine inspectors that abandoned mine workings should either be sealed or ventilated, and that the air used for ventilating them should not be distributed to the rest of the mine. Mine Superintendent John R. Foster hotly insisted that "these are [both] strictly controversial matters...
...Pete" Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch brought up the case of James Finnegan, St. Louis collector of internal revenue who is under indictment for taking bribes to fix taxpayers' accounts. Wasn't he exposed before the executive department acted? Didn't Finnegan testify that Truman even asked him to stay on the job? Truman snapped that he had consistently backed Secretary of the Treasury Snyder's request for Finnegan's resignation. Checking back, reporters found that in his Oct. 11 press conference Truman had said his recollection on the point was hazy...