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...days when "coolie wages" were paid there by the makers of low-priced dresses), 25,000 union dressmakers listened one day as their leaders issued a warning to the remaining unorganized employers: the union would not tolerate the return of gangsters like the late Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter and Jacob ("Gurrah") Shapiro...
With the possible exception of Jacob Epstein, 50-year-old Henry Moore is Britain's best and most controversial sculptor. Moore's half-abstract figures-pinheaded people carved into queer, attenuated shapes, rubbed smooth and then pierced with holes-have won critical acclaim in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946). A year ago they earned him first prize at an international exhibition in Venice. Last week, Yorkshire-born Henry Moore let the homefolks in on what he had been doing by holding a retrospective show in the red brick, grey-roofed town of Wakefield. Six thousand Yorkshiremen turned...
Last week, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Willem Jacob Luyten announced that he had discovered a double star which is only about six light years (35 trillion miles) away from the solar system. It is thus the nearest known star that can be seen regularly in the Northern Hemisphere. (The nearest of all stars, Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri, are 4.3 light years away, but are usually visible only.in the Southern Hemisphere...
Pratt begins with essays on the temper and tactics of such well-known generals as Greene, who forced Cornwallis into his hopeless position at Yorktown, and "Mad Anthony" Wayne, the hero of Fallen Timbers. But it is Country Squire Jacob Brown, onetime secretary of Alexander Hamilton, whom Chronicler Pratt considers "the best battle captain in the history of the nation." Once, during a British attack at Buffalo in the War of 1812, Brown's Kentucky squirrel hunters (under General Gaines) emptied the first two boats so quickly that the others didn't even come in. Brown, says Pratt...
...Robert Hall figures are carefully kept under the hat of U.M. & M.'s President Jacob Schwab, a shy, cold-eyed man with a passion for obscurity. His name usually gets into public print only once a year, when the U.S. Treasury lists him as one of the highest-paid executives in the , U.S. The latest list put his salary & bonus in 1946 at $440,542, third in the payments so far reported...