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...topic: the Atlantic Treaty. What worried U.N.ers most was whether it had weakened U.N. Some thought so. The Russians, whose press was hoarsely denouncing the pact as a threat to peace, were expected to raise a major row about it in the Assembly. Actually, as Australian Assembly President Herbert ("Doc") Evatt pointed out, the charter provides for regional defense pacts within U.N.'s general framework. The Atlantic pact presented the Russians with the fact of Western unity. It was hard to see how the alternative-Western weakness and division-would have strengthened U.N.'s councils...
...pulp-paper characters was ever so hard-boiled as Street & Smith themselves; whenever a title slipped in public favor, they coldly shot it down. Last week Street & Smith staged a mass execution. In one volley, their last five comic books and their four surviving pulps (Detective Story, Western Story, Doc Savage, The Shadow) bit the dust...
While doing so, "Doc" Webb ran smack up against the 1939 fair-trade laws which Florida, and 44 other states, had passed at the insistence of organized druggists as protection against price-cutting. When Webb put on a sale of Hiram Walker whisky below the fair-trade minimum...
Last week, Doc Webb won the right to sell anything at any price he pleases. In a 6-to-1 decision, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the state fair-trade law was unconstitutional. Wrote Chief Justice Alto Adams: "The act is arbitrary and unreasonable . . ." and an unlawful use of the state police power because it stifles competition and tends to foster monopolies...
When he heard about it on the radio in Leavenworth, Lloyd scrawled in self-pity: "I have no more mother and brothers for them to murder." He was wrong: brother Doc got a bullet in the head four years later trying to crash out of Alcatraz...