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...Smallholder colleagues by the secret police (TIME, June 9), the other ministers are virtually his prisoners. Last week, the A.P.'s Daniel De Luce interviewed this successful Communist statesman. De Luce reported that Rakosi "is full of belly laughs, looks as short and tubby as Fiorello LaGuardia, cracks out commentaries faster than Walter Winchell...
Some of them plainly belonged on the back pages among the shipping and travel notes. At LaGuardia airport, an American Overseas Airlines transport unloaded 30 dogs from Frankfurt, Germany and 97 reptiles from London, including twelve adders, three asps, four viperine snakes, 50 slowworms and two sandboas. On another plane from the Philippines, en route to The Bronx Zoo, came eleven tree shrews, three monkey-eating eagles, 14 giant cloud rats and 30 tarsiers. The tarsier (TIME, March 3), an insect-eating cousin of the monkey, is smaller than a squirrel, weighs only half a pound, has long fingers tipped...
Last week, Wehran won a significant skirmish. Transocean Air Lines, which operates a fleet of ten DC-4 overseas freighters, moved its eastern base from LaGuardia Field to Teterboro, giving Wehran his first transatlantic service...
...lured them to his field by selling gas cheaper (there were municipal taxes at LaGuardia and nearby Newark) and by not charging landing fees. Instead, he charges monthly rental on land and buildings...
Adhemar is part democrat and part demagogue, part do-gooder and part spellbinder. There is something about him that suggests Franklin Roosevelt-also Huey Long and Fiorello LaGuardia. He was once a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, but now disclaims any allegiance...