Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHILE he was propped up in a Walter Reed Hospital bed recovering from his ileitis operation, Dwight Eisenhower read and reread a meaty, 210-page volume entitled A Republican Looks at His Party (Harper; $2.95). Author: Arthur Larson, onetime Rhodes scholar, law-school dean (University of Pittsburgh), expert on workmen's compensation laws and social security, now, at 46, Eisenhower's own Under Secretary of Labor. So impressed was the President that when he returned to the White House, he summoned Author Larson-whom he had met only casually-to a private talk, had him back again...
Behind the Scenes. The big sticking points were 1) length of contract-the industry wanted five years, McDonald two-and 2) weekend premium pay. For about a week, as the two sides bargained in Pittsburgh on the issues, the Administration kept to its hands-off policy, leaving it to Federal Mediator Joe Finnegan to help keep the talks going. But when the going got tough, Labor Secretary Mitchell called a secret meeting in Manhattan between McDonald and the presidents of U.S. Steel, Bethlehem and Republic Steel. The Pittsburgh talks were resumed. Then, on July 21, the bargaining broke up. McDonald...
Softened Version. Next day the effort paid off. Stephens invited McDonald to meet with him privately at a Pittsburgh hotel. Said he, when the labor leader entered: "Dave, I'm here for an agreement." By day's end the two men had compromised their final difficulty: Stephens cut his five-year contract demand in return for a softened version of the weekend premium plan. In negotiations last week in Manhattan, the technical details were worked out. The major ele ments in the settlement: ¶ For the industry: a threeyear, no-strike contract, the first in 20 years...
...Pittsburgh one day in the late 19205, a tall, weedy college student named Nnamdi Azikiwe (commonly known as "Zik") learned that Boxer Jackie Zivic was looking for sparring partners. Fired with a sudden ambition, Zik offered his services. "They knocked me around so much," he recalled years later, "that I gave it up." Audacious tries and rough comeuppances are characteristic of Zik's dashing career...
...sports announcer who has al ready earned enough money to buy himself part of four Michigan radio stations (WKMH, WKMF, WSAM, WKHM), Fred Knorr organized an eleven-man syndicate (including Crooner Bing Crosby, who is also vice president of the Pittsburgh Pirates), bought the Tigers from the estate of the late Walter O. Briggs Sr. for $5,500,000, with a promise to keep present President Walter O. ("Spike") Briggs Jr. on the payroll as executive vice president. No one ever paid more for a major league team. (Previous record: $4,550,000, paid by Brewer August A. Busch...