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...Houston next month. Since the breakdown of C.I.O.-A.F. of L. peace negotiations last winter, William Green has rapidly gained confidence, and last week he was feeling sure of himself. After a parley with three of Mr. Dubinsky's vice presidents who set out to extend another feeler to Mr. Lewis in Washington, Mr. Green announced that the next peace move would have to come from C.I.O., that in the meantime A.F. of L. would be glad to take disillusioned C.I.O. unions back into the fold, whole or piecemeal...
Although Minister Pelenyi vigorously denied that Hungary was making its proposal as a "feeler" for other governments and recalled a similar arrangement the U. S. made with Austria in 1930, his otter touched off a brisk reaction In the Capital...
...LIFE magazines. The former recently carried a picture of a Holstein cow family consisting of mother and six calves [TIME, Sept. 27] and certain comments, associated therewith, on the female sterility of mixed sex dual births, prompt me to suggest that TIME'S Letters column put out a feeler for more extensive and confirming information on this biological fact or canard, whichever...
Hastily Editor Daigh selected Free-lancer Frederic Mortimer Delano (fourth cousin to the President), 40, to help shape up Photo-Facts. A metropolitan "feeler number" in August was so successful Publisher Fawcett put on newsstands this week 175,000 copies of the first regular Photo-Facts issue, a modest figure in contrast to Fawcett's bestseller, True Confessions, which has reached 1,100,000 a month...
Wild wanted to know what was behind the speech; it was a feeler, and as such a good thing, but only a "good thing if he will go further and explain what the consequences may be, for these may be revolutionary to his theory of neutrality...