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Fifty-two-year-old John Hynes is more a career civil servant than a politician, but he grew up in Boston's rough & tumble Irish politics. He quit school at 13, in the days when the help-wanted ads said "No Irish Need Apply," got a high-school education and law degree at night schools. He had climbed to the city clerk's job, traveling part of the way as an ally of Curley. When Curley went to jail, City Clerk Hynes became temporary mayor, bitterly offended Curley's City Hall crowd by his efficiency and honesty...
...winning side. The Reds' envoys had more trouble with American pilots, presumably won over a few with assurances of continued high pay (up to U.S. $1,000 a month for 74 hours' flying,, plus $10 an hour for overtime), soothed everyone by saying that no politics need be involved...
Foujita used no models for any of his new pictures. His silvery nudes belonged "to no nationality, no epoch. I have had 3,000 models and I don't need them any more." He had imparted an oriental delicacy to such details as the hair and toes, but generally slurred over the major elements that better draftsmen are apt to emphasize: the thrust of a knee or elbow, the twist of a torso or the solid bulge of a thigh. Shining out against deep black backgrounds, his nudes had more flow than form...
...land which his church considers unjust? This delicate question was posed by the Pope himself last week before the central committee of the Union of Catholic Italian Lawyers in Rome. The Pope's answer: when a state law conflicts with the church's teaching, a Catholic jurist need not enforce...
...Hutchins, the greatest need of the present was a broad, unified education that would train men to think importantly alone, but also to talk wisely together. For 20 years, that has been his mission at Chicago...