Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer a legislative committee's questions. Jersey City's imperious Mayor Frank ("I am the law") Hague opposed it. So did the Roman Catholic priests (still smarting because there were no tax-supported busses to take children to parochial schools), the state C.I.O. and the A.F. of L. (because the new constitution was no better than the old on labor's rights), the state Grange (because it would have lost control of the Agriculture Department...
...General Was Frank. Last week Allied Commander in Chief General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander conceded that the campaign was stuck. In his first interview in six months, quiet, expert Alexander agreed that the Gothic Line break in September was a failure: the autumn rains had bogged down the drive before the Po Valley was conquered. Said the General...
...Whose able commander Lieut. General Sir Oliver W. H. Leese was ordered to Burma last week and replaced by Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery, once General Alexander's chief of staff in North Africa...
...Rainey's long-standing squabble with the Regents has sometimes flared into the open: in 1942 three economics instructors were dropped by the Regents against his advice for expressing opinions ";unbecoming a faculty member"; in 1943 Arthur L. Brandon, a Rainey appointee, was summarily fired from his publicity directorship, without charges and without a hearing. But mostly it has been a private battle...
Messrs. Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster, who are among the younger and more aggressive publishers, but not too young to have moneybags under their eyes, will continue to run S. & S. Young President Robert Fair de Graff,* 49, who owned 51% of Pocket Books, will continue to manage the company. Tycoon Field denied that he plans to use his millions to flood the U.S. with $1 books. He merely intends to provide "better and better books for more and more people...