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Baffled Love. Simone Weil's whole life, writes Fiedler, was a series of acts of self-dedication that fizzled into lugubriousness. As a young schoolteacher she rushed into left-wing movements and marched in picket lines, but the authorities refused to take her seriously enough to fire her. In order to "understand" the workingman, she took a job as a factory hand in an automobile plant (a decision "fundamentally silly, the illusion of the Vassar girl of all lands," says Fiedler), where she suffered not as a worker but as an intellectual, and ended up by getting pleurisy...
...Electric Co. Though they were on strike in 43 states, the workers knew they couldn't completely disrupt telephone service. There were just too few of them. So to snarl the maximum of telephone lines with the minimum of means, the strikers began what they called "hit & run" picketing. They would show up at one exchange and when telephone workers refused to cross picket lines, supervisory workers and executives would have to be pressed into service to man the switchboards. Then the strikers would withdraw abruptly to picket another exchange. Harassed officials were kept busy shuttling reinforcements from...
...kaleidoscopic . . ." Another eyewitness wildly reported: "The President kept poking his head out the window and then they'd take another shot at him." Some of the photographers, who had arrived too late for good shots, had to resort to such hoary stunts as posing reporters pointing to a picket in the fence that had been sheared by a bullet (see cut). Three hours later, the Secret Service finally straightened out the facts at a conference with White House reporters. Next day, at the President's regular conference, New York Daily News Reporter Jack Doherty tossed up a question...
When he lunched at the Pearl Harbor Officers' Club-after a cruise in a picket boat past the rusting hulks of the battleship Arizona* and the target ship Utah-he spoke with great seriousness of his hope for world peace. At the Army's Tripler General Hospital, where he made a surprise visit to men wounded in the Korean war, his usual geniality returned. He joked with a soldier who had lost an eye: Well, the President said, you can be a banker and use your glass eye to show sympathy to people who want loans...
Gone for Good? The strike had been costly for both sides. The 400 striking Guildsmen together with the 1,000 A.F.L. printers, stereotypers and pressmen who had refused to cross Guild picket lines had already lost upwards of $1,000,000 in wages. The World-Telegram and Sim had lost a huge amount in advertising and circulation revenue. But the full cost of the strike to management was still an unknown quantity. While the W.T. & S. was off the newsstands, New York's two other evening papers had both increased their daily circulation. It was estimated that the Post...