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...China hands began packing their bags. Among them: the Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech, the Baltimore Sun's Phil Potter, the New York Times's Tillman Durdin, TIME-LIFE'S James Burke (who was a TIME-LIFE correspondent in Peking from 1947 io 1949). This week Radio Peking gave an answer that started some of them unpacking again. The Dulles decision to let U.S. newsmen into China, said the broadcast, is "completely unacceptable to the Chinese people"-unless. The unless: U.S. agreement to invite Chinese Communist correspondents on a reciprocal basis...
Ernest Weir was no less intransigent with his peers. In 1941 he gave his employees a io/ hourly raise at a time when U.S. Steel was holding out against the United Steelworkers for 7?. Steelmen had to fall into line, bitterly accused Weir of boosting the ante just to keep the union out of his plants. "In view of the industry's [booming] earnings," retorted Weir, "we felt the men should share the improvement." A few weeks later he helped sabotage U.S. Steel's plan to hike prices; he publicly supported a pending wartime price freeze, then marched...
...KNOW WHO YOUR SOURCE WAS ON YOUR DEC. IO REPORT OF MY CONVERSATION WITH SIR IVONE KIRKPATRICK, BUT YOUR ACCOUNT OF WHAT HE IS ALLEGED TO HAVE SAID TO ME IS INACCURATE, TENDENTIOUS AND UNFAIR TO US BOTH. HE MADE NO SUCH STATEMENT AS YOUR ACCOUNT ATTRIBUTES...
...players had been up to 'cellist Charles Forbes! The group has done much better in the past. Sarah-Jane Smith the concert's featured soloist, singing four works in four languages. Well-trained and agile voice, but tone tended to be too breathy. Most noteworthy was Ch'io mi scordi te?, one of those demanding "concert arias" that are in effect extensive, multisectional operatic scenes for one person...
...Io Sape quante labor le dono contine...