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...stood Press Editor Louis Seltzer and two other staffers. They had faked a divorce (TIME, Feb. 14) to dramatize the slipshod handling of such cases in Cuyahoga County. Though Editor Seltzer argued that "What we did with good intent . . . could be done by others with bad intent," the four Pressmen were found guilty, fined a total of $1,000. Sympathetic readers offered Editor Seltzer more than $1,400, and sent him six bouquets; he kept the flowers but declined the money. (The Press paid all the fines...
Died. George Leonard Berry, 66, wealthy president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union since 1907 and short-time Senator from Tennessee (1937-38); of a digestive disorder; in Pressmen's Home (a development he built for needy union members), Tenn. Self-educated (he could neither read nor write at 15), Berry became a key labor adviser in the Wilson and Roosevelt administrations, missed the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1924 by three votes...
...nothing of the sort, but by the time Charlie Ross got it explained, precious time had gone by-and the reporters were scrambling to cover the Clarksburg, W.Va. speech. Without warning to the pressmen, the President had stepped off the rear platform to say his piece, and the loudspeakers in the train had not caught a word. To make matters worse, the press services could not get stories of the speech off the train for 45 minutes...
...Resistance pressmen who moved into the confiscated plants got help from the National Committee of Liberation. Each liberated Parisian daily got a 3,000,000-franc credit, enough newsprint for 50,000 copies...
...hallowed ground like the Holy Sepulchre. The trouble is that it stands on a hill which dominates the old city and the road to Hebron. And it has a tower 176 ft. high-ideal for snipers. Both Arab and Jewish authorities have listened politely to a committee of worried pressmen. But the answer has amounted to this: O.K. in principle, but we're afraid we can't guarantee that some of our people won't attack the place on their own. So there is every prospect of having a battle right on the premises...