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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some rhymester, unknown to me, got a 35-year drop on Ogden Nash (who lately jingled the list of U.S. Presidents-TIME, June 14). We eighth-graders in San Francisco's Madison Grammar School were obliged to chant in unison...
...against its long list of futile endeavors, the United Nations could point to a few modest successes. One was the truce agreement between the Dutch and the Indonesian Republic. Last week that small star in U.N.'s crown was fading fast...
...orders called for, but clearly it was not sweetness & light. In the Italian Parliament last week the Reds were both edgy and truculent. Palmiro Togliatti started things off in the Chamber of Deputies by complaining that his name and those of 39 other Italians had been included in a list of leading Communists issued by the U.S. House of Representatives.* The House, he shouted angrily, had been elected by only 4% of the U.S. population-"the rest being Negroes...
Publishing House. Pendle Hill is also an active publishing enterprise. This venture, now in general charge of Clement Alexandre, an able and articulate young English non-Quaker, has broken even with a list of some 30 pamphlets and half a dozen books. Most of them are written by Friends, and expound Quakerly thought on current economic and social problems, and Quaker religious practices and history. Pendle Hill is thus the Society's chief U.S. publishing center...
...signed him to a $520,000-a-year contract (to prevent him from going to CBS), promised to turn over anything extra that another sponsor might want to pay. The new paycheck, even without his newspaper earnings, puts Winchell near the top of the Treasury's list of U.S. wage earners. But Winchell was rueful: "I don't give a damn about the money. I won't get any of it, anyhow. I'd have stayed if they had just shoved that commercial over to Parsons...