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...passages which will probably titillate historians in years to come is their version of what former New York Mayor William O'Dwyer was doing on Dec. 7, 1941. It seems O'Dwyer was just wrapping up a first degree murder indictment against his predecessor, La Guardia, and Sidney Hillman. The phone rang. It was President Roosevelt. Roosevelt told O'Dwyer that since the war had just broken out, O'Dwyer had better drop the charges to make sure Italians and labor unions helped along with the war effort. O'Dwyer obeyed. What makes this especially good stuff from the point...
...Rosenfeld's eye and turned into an item for the BUSINESS section (TIME, April 9). A full-page treatment of a cowboy camp meeting in the RELIGION section (TIME, July 30) started with a casual remark made while Rosenfeld was interviewing an artist. San Francisco Correspondent Serrell Hillman was covering a professional women's golf tournament at Carmel, Calif, when a friend mentioned the Army language school at Monterey, which was covered in TIME'S EDUCATION section (TIME, July...
...working on a story on the French perfume industry. He wrote: "My friends refused to associate with me, claiming that I smelled like one of those gentlemen who parade the Champs-Elysees after dark." The correspondent who got strapped into a death chair (by a playful warden) was Serrell Hillman, in San Francisco. The warden made him promise the story would run in the magazine before releasing...
...Churchill on World War III: "The main reason that I remain in public life is my desire to prevent it.") Labor had a catchy slogan: "Whose finger do you want on the trigger? Attlee's or Churchill's?" Attlee, driven by his wife in their little family Hillman, set out on an eight-day campaign trip, singing this same theme as if it were a madrigal: "Peace on earth, good will toward...
...margin. Of slightly less than 1,000,000 cars and trucks exported by all nations, Britain accounted for 540,000, the U.S. for only 260,000. Biggest buyer of British cars: Australia (76,246). Biggest British gainers in the U.S. market: Austin, up 50% to 5,450; Rootes Motors (Hillman Minx, Sunbeam-Talbot...