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...last week. Acquisition of the Constitution, with radio station WCON thrown in, did not cost Publisher Cox a cent in cash. (In 1939, he had paid about $3,000,000 for the Journal, another $2,000,000 for its radio station, and $800,000 more for Hearst's Georgian and Sunday American, which he folded.) Last week's deal was a straight stock swap: Howell & Co. exchanged their control of the Constitution properties (valued at $4,500,000) for the non-voting preferred stock in a new corporation that will control the merged papers. Chairman of the board...
...would be made to give them housing. To cut back such housing when there is still a demand is unfair. Under law, these temporary homes must be removed by 1954; until then, or until demand actually disappears, the University should maintain all the houses it can, regardless of un-Georgian appearance or costs of maintenance...
...Greenwich Village's Washington Square, the handsome Georgian houses built by Real Estate Magnate William C. Rhinelander in the 1830s were coming down to make way for a new apartment house. Over near the East River, acres of slums had fallen before the grim, brick-cliffed ranks of Stuyvesant Town and its corollary projects. Along Central Park, new apartment houses were rising, and ornate brownstones were falling...
...midst of the festivities, somebody remembered Mom. "This day, let us transfer ourselves to the suburbs of Tbilisi," wrote Novelist Mikhail (And Quiet Flows the Don) Sholokhov, "and with reverent sorrow and ardent gratitude in our hearts silently bend our heads over the sacred remains of a small, modest Georgian woman, the mother who 70 years ago gave the world him who became humanity's greatest man, our leader and father...
Joseph Stalin had much to celebrate; he also had much to remember. When he was born, the son of a drunken Georgian shoemaker and his peasant wife, Queen Victoria was on the throne, Karl Marx was a penniless scribbler, and the world seemed to find it a good deal easier to tell the difference between right & wrong than it does today. Stalin built an empire of a kind that Victoria could not have visualized even in her nightmares; he forged Marx's foggy philosophy into an iron knife with which to carve the earth; and he swamped mankind with...