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While little men toiled atop the Stadium yesterday rigging spotter's phones and other paraphernalia, a larger species of men in the employ of Art Valpey were working on the fields below polishing up more basic elements for Saturday's opener...
...would humbly point out that there is no road between Arsoli and Cervara [a nearby town]. The path is so narrow that a mule can hardly get through. While you take your time to solve the urgent question of our water, please advance funds to build a road and employ our idle young men. We respectfully submit that these young men have nothing to put in their kitchen pots, and their parents are pained to see them grow up as wastrels." Back came Rome's answer: "Start work at once. The government will send money...
After reading the publicity given to ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers, Senior Editor of TIME Magazine, my first impulse is to cancel my subscription. It is inconceivable that a news publication of such influence can knowingly employ anyone who has ever been a Communist...
...publisher, Eleanor Medill Patterson knew how to employ the carrot as well as the stick. In benign moments she used to tell top hands on her Washington Times-Herald that when she died, the paper would go to them. Last week, in her will, she made good on her promise. The Times-Herald, valued at around $7,000,000, was left to seven faithful executives. Overnight each of the seven became a millionaire. Her estate will even pay the inheritance taxes. The lucky seven: ¶ Editor-in-Chief Frank C. Waldrop, 42, who never crossed the boss, became an executor...
Bigart was warned to employ the strictest konspiratsia, "that favorite Balkan term for secrecy." Next day the stranger brought a guide, a stocky, studious youth named John. He told Bigart to buy a ticket to Rome and get an Italian visa, to make things look legitimate, then...