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...Panto was killed, and life for workmen in Brooklyn's six "Camarda locals" of the International Longshoremen's Association-so-called because of their ironhanded rule by a hoodlum named Emil Camarda-went on as usual. Anastasia was not even brought in by O'Dwyer for questioning. Rank & file members of the A.F.L. union, witnesses testified, had to pay their dues to gangsters who simply appropriated them. They were rarely allowed to hold meetings. They not only had to "kick back" up to 40% of their salaries for the privilege of getting work, but to contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Nine Hundred & Forty Thieves | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...member of the Australian Olympic team and one of the first to be shut out of the 1,500-meter heats at the Olympics. But as a sidelined observer, Miler Landy took due note of the peculiar running style of Czechoslovakia's famed triple Olympic Titleholder Emil Zatopek (TIME, Nov. 3). He also picked up a few training tips from Zatopek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four-Minute Mile | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...Joliot-Curie. But the congress needed a bigger new star than Sartre to revive public interest in its three-year-old slogans. Even a new Peace Dove by Picasso-soaring now, and plumper than the first one-and a street-sprinting exhibition by Czech Olympic Runner Emil Zatopek failed to draw crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Dirty Hands | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Nothing about the church is more functional, or more imaginative, than its 38-ft.-square window, which Emil Frei and Robert Harmon designed. Since the window faces the congregation, they made it only partly transparent-to cut down glare. By day, the opaque areas appear in silhouette; with interior lighting at night, they create a mural effect. The church itself is somewhat stiff in design, and the window's weaving composition is contrastingly amorphous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: INSIDE-OUT WINDOW | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...Sparreholm, Sweden, Emil Elmvall, determined to chase a rat out from behind his car's upholstery, filled the car with acetylene gas, caused an explosion which blew the car top over a two-story house, shattered 300 windowpanes and injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 15, 1952 | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

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