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When Federal Trade Commissioner Lowell Mason spoke before the hardware manufacturers convention in Atlantic City last week, startled hardwaremen wondered if they were hearing aright. He addressed them as "fellow law-violators" and told them they were all probably violating the Supreme Court decision which FTC had won against basing...
Under FTC's rotation system, Mason is due to become FTC chairman next January (for one year) but privately he fears that the other members* will stop rotating if he does not shut up. Nevertheless, this week Mason kept on talking. "Down in my shop," he told the Boston...
To relieve the boredom, reporters turned to inventing cynical little ditties. The best the Dewey press corps could work up was a feeble jingle about "Unity plus Dewnity." The boys with Truman were more inspired; they hit their peak with a parody of I'm Looking Over a Four...
"A reading book," says the author, is "what we all want these days ... a book in which we can lose ourselves . . ." If this is all everybody wants, his new novel provides a decent degree of immersion. The story of a wagon journey across Pennsylvania in 1764, Toward the Morning moves...
* The death of the last surviving witness in the trial was reported last week. Maid Bridget Sullivan, who died in Butte, testified that when she came upon Miss Lizzie shortly after the murders, her hair was in order and there were no bloodstains on her dress. That testimony helped clear...