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Honorable mention in the three divisions were awarded to Walter J. Kaiser 3G, for "The Prologue to Tiers Livre," to Gabriel Kolko 4G, for "A Critique of Max Weber's Philosophy of History," and to Edmond S. Miksch 1G, for his essay, "A Finite, Boundless, Flat Universe...
...smothered by past awards and citations, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, 64, quietly celebrated the 35th anniversary of his appointment...
...runs a Teamster local in Miami, has been on Neo Gravure's payroll (together with four of his relatives) since 1945, after serving three years in the pen. But a share was slipped to a Longshoremen's Union official, Cornelius Noonan, who helped Gross engineer the shakedown. <J In 1948, $43,143.62 was extorted from the high-minded New York Times as tribute for moving the Times's Sunday supplements during a Teamster strike. The Times, faced with the alternative of losing $160,000 in supplement advertising, coughed up the money. Similarly, $13,856.38 was extorted from...
Died. Myron C. Taylor, 85, industrialist, philanthropist, representative to the Vatican for Presidents Roosevelt and Truman ; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Ready to retire at 50 from a successful business career as a textile executive, Taylor was launched on a second career by his friend J. P. Morgan, who urged him to go to work for U.S. Steel. He cleared the corporation of a $340 million bonded debt in time to withstand the Depression. Famed for his diplomacy in labor relations, Episcopalian Taylor was appointed F.D.R.'s special envoy to the Vatican in 1939, a post he served...
Hellenism, by Arnold J. Toynbee. The historian finds lessons for the present in ancient Greece's humanism and worship of city-states, both of which he deplores...