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Died. Joseph Charles Rovensky, 66, longtime (1928-45) vice president of the Chase National Bank; of a stroke; in Manhattan. As chief negotiator during the '30's for 118 American banks that had made post-World War I loans to Germany, Banker Rovensky wheedled from defaulting German banks $465 million (at 60? on the dollar...
...hour parade up New York's Fifth Avenue, an impressive display of labor's might, he was elected A.F.L. Secretary-Treasurer. Since then he has concentrated on public relations (he got the A.F.L. to sponsor regular news broadcasts) and relations with unions abroad (he spearheaded the post-World War II fight against U.S. labor's participation in the Soviet-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions). Strongly antiCommunist, Meany became heir apparent to Green in 1947 after he balked John L. Lewis' try for a seat on the A.F.L. Executive Council by hammering at Lewis' opposition...
...cited 17 separate post-World War I treaties in which the Soviets had explicitly agreed that there should be no forced repatriation of prisoners. "Pretty good doctrine," Acheson murmured; why weren't they for it now? Then the U.S. Secretary of State formally called on the committee to uphold the U.N. negotiators at Panmunjom and to reaffirm their stand against forcible repatriation...
...Four occupiers on notice that if they don't get together on a peace treaty soon, Austria will appeal to the United Nations General Assembly for "the freedom that is her due." Inability to do justice to Austria is a prize example of the weakness of post-World War II statesmanship. So far, in the past five years, the Big Four have held 258 meetings on the subject-all futile...
Died. Katharine Brush, 49, glamor-girl bestselling novelist (Young Man of Manhattan, Red-Headed Woman) of the post-World War I speakeasy era; after an operation; in Manhattan. A Boston movie critic at 17, .she was twice married, twice divorced. In the early '30s she moved into a flossy, Joseph Urban-designed Manhattan duplex apartment and settled down at a 15-ft. semicircular desk. But the Depression had left its mark on facile Writer Brush. She began to analyze her own brittle-youth-of-the-'20s stories, and her once glib pen slowed down and stalled. "When...