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...Daughter Nell conclude her bedside prayers with ". . . and God bless Mommy and Mr. Chairman." Adds Mr. Chairman: "I can only say amen. I've got a tiger by the tail, and I haven't got any illusions." Milwaukee-born, Minow was named the outstanding graduate of Northwestern University's law school in 1950, went to work as an administrative assistant to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson after a spell as clerk to the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson. An aggressively loyal Stevensonian, Minow campaigned for the Governor (now his fellow partner in the law firm...
...Ball, 51, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Another Stevensonian, Lawyer Ball was executive director of Adlai's volunteer groups in the 1952 campaign, took charge of his candidate's public relations in 1956. He is no stranger to Treasury corridors. After his graduation from Northwestern's law school in 1933, he served two years in Treasury during the yeasty reign of Henry Morgenthau Jr. before going into private practice in Chicago. Ball was a wartime federal gadfly for the Lend-Lease Administration and Foreign Economic Administration-experience that proved useful in his postwar private practice...
...last of eight children of a Russian immigrant family, Goldberg grew up on Chicago's West Side, went to work as a delivery boy in a shoe factory (for $3.80 a week) at the age of twelve, and won his law degree at Northwestern University at 20. He argued his own case so beguilingly before the state Supreme Court that the rules were suspended and he was permitted to take his bar examinations before his 21st birthday...
...earth. Apparently the explosions caused disturbances in the earth's magnetic field, and these spread as waves, moving with almost the speed of light. At almost the same instant, Soviet monitoring stations in the Pacific, in Central Asia, on the Black Sea, and near Murmansk in extreme northwestern Russia recorded the waves clearly. After studying the records, Dr. Troitskaya decided that the final Argus blast on Sept 6, exploded a small fraction of a second from 10 hr. 12 min. 34 sec. p.m. Greenwich mean time. At last week's end this figure was still classified information...
North to Alaska (20th Century-Fox), a sort of northwestern for intellectuals, resets the Tristram legend as a Klondike comedy. Steady now. The Tristram is John Wayne. Bound home to Nome with a load of mine machinery, Sourdough Wayne picks up a package (Capucine) for his prospector pal (Stewart Granger). Though sorely tempted, the big dope delivers the package still wrapped. Can't he see that the girl is madly in love with him? Probably not: Actress Capucine has only one expression at her command, a look of tender gastritis. When Wayne and friend get back to the mine...