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...ship, huddled in the steerage, but by plane. Being U.S. citizens, they beat at no immigration bars, never had their pictures taken in colorful native costume behind the wire enclosures of Ellis Island. They simply seeped in, landing by 20s and 30s from battered planes at La Guardia field, Teterboro and Newark, suddenly appearing beside their cardboard suitcases on the city's sidewalks outside a hole-in-the-wall travel agency...
What's the Hurry? Last week, U.S. attorneys overcame another of Ellen Knauff's court appeals and, without bothering to wait for final congressional action, bundled her bag & baggage to La Guardia Airport. Mrs. Knauff's attorney rushed an appeal to Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson in Washington. Jackson, one of the three justices who dissented when the Supreme Court tossed out Mrs. Knauff's first appeal, looked at the clock and dictated an eleventh-hour hairbreadth reprieve for the woman. "Bundling this woman onto an airplane to get her out of this country within...
Carroll, who made a great show of earnest interest, was treated with vast politeness, too. (Said one baffled spectator: "They act like they was trying to give him the Congressional Medal.") But pudgy, fat-necked Gambler Frank Erickson, once assailed by the late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia as a "tinhorn and punk," ran into trouble. Enraged when Erickson, for approximately the twelfth time, insisted on his "constitutional rights," Senator McFarland yelled: "You're your own crime syndicate, aren...
...first week of his U.S. good-will visit, Chile's energetic President Gabriel González Videla lived up to all his advance notices. Flashing a smile reminiscent of F.D.R.'s, he raced from ceremony to celebration with a headlong pace that recalled the late Fiorello La Guardia...
...took in the dancing in the Parque Central. As he sat on a park bench watching the capital's famously handsome señoritas walk by arm in arm, some drunks raised a cheer for the government's bitterest enemy, exiled ex-President Rafael Calderón Guardia. Ulate forbade their arrest. "Let them viva whom they wish," he said...