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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to find a blank space on the Summer School's social calendar. If there isn't a dance, there is a Yard punch. Or a music hour. Or a square dance. Or a Tanglewood excursion...
...Waldorf-Astoria visits at Goldfine's expense? Adams and his wife once "were invited to stop at a meeting of Mr. Goldfine's business associates," stopped overnight again when "I happened to find myself in New York" on a trip between Washington and New Hampshire...
Nevertheless, it was Adams' intent that most interested the subcommittee. Subcommittee Counsel Robert Lishman reminded Adams that he had, in 1953, telephoned Federal Trade Commission Chairman Edward Howrey to find out why one of Goldfine's woolen mills had been cited by FTC for mislabeling fabrics. Back from Chairman Howrey to Adams went a personal memorandum that identified the source of the complaint to FTC, and added: If Goldfine's company would "give adequate assurances that all their labeling will be corrected, the case can be closed . . ." Adams had passed this inside information along to Goldfine...
...fourth hat, the one she wears as Mrs. Charles D. Peet of Bronxville, wife of a Manhattan lawyer, mother of a son, 22, a daughter, 12. She and her husband duck Manhattan nightlife, spend most of their spare time at home with their family. Does Mrs. Peet find conflict in two careers in the family? "I get disgusted," she says, "with people who try to emphasize 'the battle of the sexes'-always pitting men against women. I think the only important thing is for each person to live up to his own potential." Her advice to women...
This book was literally dug up. It is a translation of records that were scribbled in Yiddish and Hebrew. They were sealed (in a milk can) and buried at a secret point in the ghetto. Not until 1946 did searchers find them in bombed Warsaw's featureless rubble. The man who originally compiled, wrote and preserved the records was named Emmanuel Ringelblum, a teacher of history; he recalls Noach Levinson, hero of John Mersey's bestselling novel, The Wall, who was supposed to have preserved archives of the Warsaw ghetto. In 1939 Ringelblum was safe in Switzerland...