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...Theodore L. Rowland '48 was named Popular Music Director, Ray A. Goldberg '48, House Chairman, and Louis Weinman '46, Director of Publicity and Special Events...
...from America . . . Considerably less ordered and arranged was Congress' experience with one of its fraternal foreign delegates, the A.F. of L.'s burly George Meany. A tough-talking ex-plumber from New York. Meany carried a verbal rocket in his pocket, lost no time firing it. His target: Soviet Russia, whose fellow fraternal delegate, Michael P. Tarasov, sat an arm's length away...
...Edged Sickle. Italian Communism is a two-edged sickle: 1) the Party, as represented by longheaded, Comintern-trained Palmiro Togliatti, Minister of Justice in Parri's coalition cabinet; 2) L'Apparato (The Apparatus), a secret organization, set up for strikes and possible violent action. L'Apparato is reputedly bossed by Italy-born, Russia-naturalized Ruggiero Grieco...
...Party preaches law & order, moderation. L'Apparato does the revolutionary chores, operates (as have many such Communist International outfits) through a series of pyramided cells of three members, with only one man of each cell knowing one man of the cell above his. The cell structure is strong. It includes many former Italian soldiers captured in Russia and permitted to return to Italy. Cell members have infiltrated many a vital observation post and possible point of action-in utilities, banks, newspapers, reportedly even in police and carabinieri ranks...
Died. André Tardieu, 68, bustling three-time Premier of France (1929, 1930, 1932), last surviving French signer of the Treaty of Versailles; after long illness; in Menton, France (according to the Swiss radio). Once known as "L'Américain" for his blunt, go-getting ways, he said before the war that Germany "neither wants nor is able to make...