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Died. Georges Mandel, 58, longtime French politico. Minister of the Interior in World War II; of undisclosed causes; in prison, somewhere in Germany. Born Jereboam Rothschild (no kin to the financiers), he was Clemenceau's trouble-shooter in World War I held other portfolios before joining Paul Reynaud's doomed cabinet...
William Randolph Hearst, monarch of a communications dynasty (16 newspapers, eight magazines, four radio stations, one news service, one feature syndicate, one photo service), art collector, exponent of yellow journalism, worshiper at circulation's shrine, reporter, reformer, politico, columnist and multimillionaire, was 80 last week. For a man of his means and mightiness he celebrated modestly...
...bargaining." This, and other statements which show the miners as feeling pretty certain that most of the inhabitants of Washington, D. C., are engaged in a conspiracy to make life miserable for the coal-diggers, smells of the campaign of confusion among the nation's coal miners that vindictive politico Lewis has been waging for many months. Then confronted with rising living costs and a Little Steel Formula, which prevents an adjustment, they have reluctantly concluded that what this country needs is a damn big strike to give the workingman a break...
...successor to Mexico's rough, tough type of politico is the President's older brother, Maximino Avila Camacho. Rich, shrewd Brother Maximino has an interest in Mexico City's bull ring, as Minister of Communications has his hand in many other ventures. He is Manuel's hatchet man, the fixer, "the man to know" in Mexican politics and finance. Yet no man ever traced any venture of Maximino's to the President's door, and certainly not to his pockets. Labor distrusts Maximino, the peasants sometimes confuse him with Manuel. The President once pointed...
...year-old TIME Correspondent Jack Belden, Burma was not just a politico-military tragedy. It was also a fantastic personal adventure, a dream, a series of violent, sick, hot, ruinous and sensuous images. He crowds them into a dynamic account of the Burmese ordeal...