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After one year of duty, Yule left the University police force to start building his reputation as "the friendliest superintendent at the College." At the Deacon House he long ago settled into his undisputed roles as checker champion and traditional performer in the annual Christmas play...
...Friendliest Strike." The atmosphere was strained when Fairless stood up to speak. It eased considerably when he dropped his hands to his sides and said quietly: "Last night was the first good night's sleep that I have had in a long time . . ." Fairless made public a little-known fact: he has a brother who is a member of the steelworkers' local in Massillon, Ohio. "During this affair," said Fairless, "I kept away from Massillon . . . Of course [my brother] has been out of work for some time...
...Labor accept the fact that they are part of one community. Said Fairless: "[The strike] was snarled in a series of mistakes made by all three parties, I think. I know we made some, and there were some made by our Government." He congratulated the steelworkers on "the friendliest strike I have ever heard of," and told of an incident at McKeesport, Pa., where a foreman ran out of a struck plant and begged the lone picket to call the union hall and get them to send out a striking plumber to deal with some emergency. The picket replied that...
...church's first experimental-psychology laboratory there. In Psychiatry and Catholicism (McGraw-Hill; $6), the authors try to explain each to the other. With a preface by Washington's Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle, their book is the most authoritative and, in a guarded way, the friendliest Catholic statement about psychiatry to appear...
Progress reports from behind the closed doors emphasized that everything was "on the friendliest basis." But nobody expected, or hoped for, any big decisions like those that came out of the close intimacy of Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. Harry Truman, painfully aware that he wasn't Roosevelt, had learned that he was no man to map U.S. diplomacy on the back of an envelope. Through most of the conferences he kept Dean Acheson close at hand. (During World War II Churchill hardly ever met Secretary of State Cordell Hull.) Nor was Churchill as sturdy as before: more & more...