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...fending factions were headed by Allan S. Haywood, the CIO's executive vice-president, and 45-year-old Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, the CIO's largest union...
Leading contender for the C.I.O. presidency is Allen S. Haywood, 64, C.I.O. executive vice president, who came out of the U.M.W. with Murray and has been a close associate ever since. Haywood may be the rallying point for all those who oppose the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, 45, well-hated by Phil Murray's Steelworkers...
...Neither Haywood, Reuther nor anyone else in sight has the stature or wisdom of Phil Murray. By coincidence, both Harry Truman and Ben Fairless used the same term in eulogizing Murray this week. They called him a "Christian Gentleman," a hard term to earn in the vortex of a social storm...
...Died. Haywood Patterson, 39, one of the nine famed "Scottsboro Boys," who were convicted, after one of the most sensational trials of the century, of raping two white women in a freight car; of cancer; in Southern Michigan Prison, where he was serving a 6-to-15-year term for manslaughter. Sentenced (in 1937) to 75 years in jail for his part in the Scottsboro case, Patterson escaped from an Alabama prison, fought off extradition attempts, but was sent to jail again in 1950 for stabbing a man in a barroom brawl...
Getaway. In Arlington, Va., the judge let Haywood L. Miller off with a light $15 fine for reckless driving and fleeing from highway cops at 70 m.p.h., after Miller explained: "I was out with another man's wife, and I thought that's who was chasing...