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...course of his wide-ranging fantasies, the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses imagined himself invested with the scarlet mantle and gold chain of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. To Joyce, Leopold Bloom's dream was doubly fanciful because-he was a Jew−and what chance would a Jew have of becoming major of Dublin town...
Such sweeping charges have brought equally sweeping countercharges. French Dominican Raymond-Leopold Bruckberger says that the present plight of the U.S. intellectual is largely "the fault of the American intellectuals themselves...
PROXY FIGHT for Fairbanks, Morse between management and Penn-Texas' Leopold Silberstein (TIME, Feb. 6) has gone to management, at least for now. At the annual meeting Penn-Texas forces claimed 440,000 shares v. 863,000 (of 1,371,000 shares outstanding) for the management, led by Chairman Robert H. Morse. Under Illinois' voting rules, Penn-Texas will probably get three or four seats on the eleven-man board, but Morse will keep control...
When Financier Leopold Dias Silberstein started to move in on Fairbanks, Morse & Co. in January, President Robert H. Morse Jr. predicted that he would "run into a buzz saw." Last week Silberstein got cut up. The New York Stock Exchange agreed to list 141,890 new shares of Fairbanks, Morse stock, giving the Chicago company the additional shares it needed for a stock trade with Canadian Locomotive Co. (TIME, Feb. 6), which it already controls. Thus President Morse, whose family and management own nearly 350,000 (of 1,228,590) shares of stock in the 98-year-old company, hopes...
...coalition partners, the Socialists, argued that nobody ever got anything by appeasing the Russians: Austria was sentimentally and emotionally in the Western camp and should make this plain. Many of Raab's own People's Party agreed. Last week Raab gave way to his critics. Foreign Minister Leopold Figl announced that Austria had decided to join the Council of Europe...