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...baked legislation. The "Republican hiatus" represents nothing more reactionary than a pause to think--but thinking seems to be out of style when government is conducted on sales slogans--"New Deal," "fair deal," "gluttons of privilege,"--political programs retailed in the same fashion as cigarettes and soap. Richard E. Platt...
Singles: Backe won, 6-1, 6-1; Brandt won, 6-2, 7-5; Platt won 6-2, 6-0; Wightman lost, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1; Ager won, 6-2, 6-3; Bullard...
...critics had to go on was a generalized but nonetheless official sketch and a somewhat glamorized interpretation of it by LIFE (see cut). But it was enough to raise the hackles of conservative architects. Said the president of Manhattan's Municipal Art Society, Architect Charles C. Platt: "It seems to me simply slabs turned up and slabs lying on their belly, with no unity of composition. . . . A diabolical dream. . . ." Cried Perry Coke Smith, of the American Institute of Architects: "It looks like a sandwich on edge and a couple of freight cars. . . . I fail to see how an office...
...Cashman (RIS); fourth, Castrano (RIS). Time--4 min., 25 8/10 sec. Two-mile run--Won by Black (RIS); second, Cameron (RIS); third, La Flamac (RIS); fourth, Rosenfeld (H). Time--10 min., 16 9/10 sec. 120-yard high hurdles--Won by Flint (H); second, Crossley (B); third, Dahl (RIS); fourth, Platt (RIS). Time--15 sec. 220-yard low hurdles--Won by Flint (H); second, Corcoran (RIS); third, McCormick (H); fourth, Crossley (B). Time--24 3/10 sec. Polt vault--Won by Harwood (H); tie for second between Torrey (H) and Sherman (RIS); fourth, Lawrence (H). Height--13 ft. High jump...
Brothers Wallace and Martin Platt, Longchamps bookkeeper and office manager, not only pleaded guilty but turned Government witnesses. Wallace Platt took the stand to tell exactly how the huge job of cheating had been done. Said he: Longchamps kept two sets of books, juggled one set by understating sales and overstating purchases, used the faked figures in filing 1940-44 tax returns, siphoned the money, along with tips taken from hat-check girls, into a safety deposit...