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...mountaintop in Pennsylvania's green Pocono range, 85 miles from Manhattan's garment district, sprawls a 700-acre resort named Unity House, where garment workers can enjoy vacation comforts at proletarian prices. There, last week, gathered two dozen members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Executive Council, finding time between business sessions for golf, gin rummy and fishing in the resort's three-mile-long lake. But for all the resort pleasures, the labor leaders wore solemn faces. They had come to discuss the state of U.S. organized labor as Labor Day 1958 approached-and there...
...winding Pocono mountain road, past the guardhouse outside the 800-acre estate, along the driveway lined with spreading sycamores, skirting the garden with its orange zinnias and lavender petunias, purred the Cadillacs and Chryslers of organized labor's leaders. The executive council of the combined A.F.L.-C.I.O. met last week at "Unity House," the $5,000,000 Pennsylvania summer resort of David Dubinsky's garment workers' union, to answer an important political question: Should the A.F.L.-C.I.O. officially endorse a presidential candidate this year...
...worst single disaster struck Stroudsburg, Pa., in the Pocono Mountains, where the usually gentle Brodhead Creek rose 30 terrifying feet in 15 minutes, left more than 50 dead. At Camp Davis, a religious retreat, 31 of 40-odd campers, nearly all of them women and children, were dead or missing. Mrs. Jennie Johnson, a survivor, described...
Millionairess Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 30, wife of sexagenarian Conductor Leopold Stokowski and self-admitted washout as an amateur actress at 16, starred before a sellout audience at Pennsylvania's Pocono Playhouse as the princess in Ferenc Molnar's The Swan. Consensus of the critics: "Nerveless poise." With Stoky's blessing, Gloria, mother of two and a painter of some commendable abstractions, suddenly found herself "enthusiastic about making the stage a career...
...Vegas, Nev., shooting for one of golf's richest prizes, the $35,000 Las Vegas Open, Art Wall Jr., 30, a pro from Pocono Manor, Pa., banged out rounds of 69-66-70-73, to beat Runners-Up Lloyd Mangrum and Al Besselink by six strokes...