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Order out of Chaos. Such far-flung notions of its job are basic to the nation's most remarkable union. Once dominated by Communists itself, the I.L.G.W.U. is now the pillar of the anti-Communist Left. Despite the heaviest hand in management in all U.S. industry, no other union is so popular with its employers...
Lusty Poet Robert Burns stood posthumously revealed as a pillar of unexpected propriety." In a holograph letter sold at a London auction last week, Bobby told an author friend that he had once lent a sailor a copy of his book. The book, said the poet, had so affected the sailor that instead of seducing a girl friend, he had married...
Lost Boundaries (Film Classics), first published as a real-life drama in Reader's Digest, described the tragic dilemma of a fair-skinned Negro family in a small New England town who for years had "passed" as whites. The father was a prosperous doctor and a pillar of the community, the mother an active worker in civic affairs. The children, unaware of their antecedents, were normal, happy-go-lucky American school kids-until the day their father, whose secret had been exposed by U.S. naval intelligence, told them the truth. From there on, they became in their own minds...
...Pillar. Black-bearded, burly Ma Pufang, now 46, has been a pillar of anti-Communist strength in the Northwest ever since his troops hurled back the Communists of the Long March in 1934-35. A highhanded but benevolent despot, he has also given his spare, dry, upland Chinghai province (pop. 1,500,000) some of China's best roads, extensive irrigation works and a spectacular reforestation program. Over 13 years he supervised the planting of millions of willow, poplar and acacia seedlings to shade the roads, check riverbank erosion, supply fuel. "Even when I was a little...
Harry Truman thanked the people who arranged the breakfast for placing "Steamboat" Johnson behind a pillar "where he couldn't see me." From behind the pillar Steamboat-Interstate Commerce Commissioner J. Monroe Johnson, an honorary member of Battery D-piped up: "If you think we did something for you in Washington last time [at the Battery D Inauguration-Day breakfast], just wait until the next time Captain Harry is President and see what we can do." Startled, Harry Truman laughed. "All those newsmen," he cautioned, "will think it's a plant...