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...volumes, or some 1,250,000 words. Four researchers, two secretaries and an archivist are already closeted in the Churchill mansion in Suffolk, sifting through 300,000 unpublished papers. And Randolph is still calling for more from "anyone who can send letters from or about Sir Winston or any firsthand recollections...
Died. George Ephraim Sokolsky, 69, foreign correspondent turned syndicated columnist, a militant conservative who was a fiery one-man front for capitalism; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Son of a New York rabbi and a student at Columbia Journalism School, he left to observe the Russian Revolution firsthand, got bounced from the country by the Soviets for his adverse editorial views, landed in China with one Yankee dollar in his pocket, and stayed 14 years in Asia as a correspondent, political adviser and friend of China's revolutionary leader, Dr. Sun Yatsen. Returning...
...million in U.S. bullion from falling into Japanese hands on besieged Corregidor; he just loaded the gold aboard a U.S. submarine that happened to need the ballast. From private business and long federal service, notably as top aide to Truman's Treasury Secretary John Snyder, he has firsthand knowledge of how ineffectual Government policy can be. For five years before returning to Washington as Comptroller, Saxon worked the banker's side of the street as counsel to Chicago's First National Bank...
...never thought I'd see the day when in a place 90 miles from the States, Commie guards would keep me from taking liberty." For TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers' firsthand report, see THE HEMISPHERE, Containment Shuffleboard...
...Schirra added: "We shouldn't have to pay the penalty of publicity and being show biz in the sense of going to various gala affairs. If it's a scientific meeting where our attendance can contribute to the program, where scientists and other engineers can get some firsthand reports from us, it's our obligation to be there. Naturally, we're indebted to the country. We've got to pay them back and give them this information, but we don't have to give them an appearance. We've done that...