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...First. The Federal Communications Commission prepared to receive its first woman member: blonde, 43-year-old Frieda B. Hennock, a Manhattan corporation lawyer, who was named last week by President Truman -to succeed Commissioner Clifford J. Durr, who resigned. (She still has to be confirmed by the Senate.) Polish-born, Bronx-bred Miss Hennock was the youngest woman (21) ever admitted to the New York bar. A graduate of Brooklyn Law School, she hopes to represent the women who "comprise radio's biggest audience...
Zionists, who needed not only arms but men, were split on methods of getting able-bodied new immigrants. Dr. Moshe Sneh, Polish-born member of the Jewish Agency Executive and leader of the Zionist underground Haganah during most of World War II, urged a speedup of immigration, including refugees from Communist-dominated Eastern Europe. Last week, two ships sailed from a Bulgarian port for Palestine with 15,000 Jewish refugees (including, said a London "authoritative source," Communist fifth columnists). The Jewish Agency, to avoid trouble, tried to stop the sailing. Promptly leftist Sneh resigned. Cried he: "The infamous Anglo-American...
...half at "Woodside," the twelve-acre estate on Spring Street where he lived for nine years. The big, yellow brick house is now owned by the W. L. Mackenzie King Woodside Foundation, which hopes some day to make it a national shrine. Meantime it is rented to Polish-born Tony Kielbasa, a tanner. Mr. King pointed to the spot where he and his brother had once pitched their tent and to a bank that had once been covered with violets. He talked of his mother's bed of lilies-of-the-valley. A giant tulip tree in the grove...
Died. Bronislaw Hubermann, 64, Polish-born violinist, rated among Europe's best; at Nant sur Corsier, Switzerland. Noted for his virtuosity (at 13, Hubermann played Brahms for Brahms himself, moved him to tears), Hubermann was one of the first artists to leave Hitler's Germany, spent much of his time thereafter organizing the Palestine Symphony of Tel Aviv and scribbling books in support of a United States of Europe...
...Polish-born Reshevsky, 35, a former child chess prodigy who is now a Boston accountant, lets his more impetuous opponents beat themselves. One of them, Stephen Kowalski, was so confused by Reshevsky's tactics that he failed to think up the required 45 moves in two and a quarter hours, and was counted out. Champion Reshevsky never plays chess between tournaments; during them, however, he keeps his mind on chess night & day. His wife, who is just learning the game (out of a book; he won't teach her), says that she has to be very careful...