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...Phil Murray's unspoken sympathy in another fight. Last week the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, the biggest Communist-wired union of all, cried out for Murray to do something about "raids" on its membership by right-winger Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers. A fortnight ago two large U.E. locals (about 4,500 members) in Hartford, Conn., voted overwhelmingly to secede from the U.E. and join a new U.A.W. local. Their reason: long feuding between the locals' non-Communist leaders and the U.E.'s top bosses...
When famed Communist-line Physicist Irène Joliot-Curie arrived from France a fortnight ago, her overnight detention on Ellis Island stirred many a U.S. citizen to protest (TIME, March 29). News of her arrival also stirred the memory of French Expert Adele Starbird, dean of women at St. Louis' Washington University. In her St. Louis Star-Times column last week, Dean Starbird recalled a 1946 interview with Mme. Joliot-Curie in Paris. Some Curie-isms...
...fortnight, Herald circulation zoomed from 250,000 to 1,000,000. Elias' giveaway offers of pots & pans, washing machines and the complete works of Charles Dickens started the most insanely expensive circulation war that Britain had ever seen. In 1933, the Herald was the first London daily to hit the two-million mark...
...Whose husband's estate was confiscated by the new Communist-dominated Czech government last fortnight...
...National Hockey League's present fortunes are guided by a tightlipped, teetotaling bachelor lawyer named Clarence S. Campbell, who made news a fortnight ago when he cracked down on a couple of players involved in a gambling fix (TIME, March 22). For love of hockey, Campbell ditched a profitable law practice for three years to referee big-league games. In September 1946, he was made N.H.L.'s president, given a $15,000 salary, a spacious office in league headquarters in Montreal. Campbell wants more clubs, more arenas. Says he: "It's an awfully good game...