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...friend, Dan O'Connell, Albany's Democratic boss. Dan was sick in bed but willing to listen, for he had some personal problems. The state courts had been meddling in real-estate assessments in Albany, which are carefully adjusted to favor O'Connell friends and punish O'Connell enemies. Democrat Dan found that annoying. Furthermore, if & when the state took over rent control, O'Connell would have another problem: the Albany staff of the Federal Housing Expediter, which happens to be stuffed with O'Connell men, would be out of work...
Some kind of corrective legislation seems almost inevitable. But a sloppily-drawn measure would punish innocent universities as well as the guilty ones. Congress will have to be careful in wording the laws, so that it does not, in University Treasurer Paul C. Cabot's words, "burn down the barn to kill the rats...
...longed for, with a shabby $30 wardrobe and a full range of seamy emotions, and she gives it the full measure of her considerable talent and beauty. But she is surrounded by such mediocrity that her performance seems pathetically wasted. Would-be moralists who are trying to punish her and Director Rossellini for their private transgressions by banning Stromboli might serve their own ends better by having the picture shown as widely as possible...
...week long, the FEPC bill-to punish an employer for discrimination in hiring because of race or religion-was an issue, but it came no nearer to a vote. It was a performance that reflected little credit on either party, for both have endorsed FEPC in their platforms. Even before the debate began, Speaker Sam Rayburn of Bonham, Texas let it be known that he would do his considerable best to keep FEPC from reaching the House floor. His excuse was that the bitter struggle over changing the House rules (TIME, Jan. 30) had not left the "right atmosphere...
...seems to this writer that there are still two ways out of such mental puzzles. The NCAA, having failed to punish its wrongdoers, night throw away the Sanity Code and save its investigators' time and expenses; or other members might adopt what seems to be an increasingly popular attitude at Ivy League schools--to stay home, play each other, and stop fooling around with the pros...