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...Mike was in the spotlight again. Red Mike was once a fighter in the Irish Republican Army, once a lowly change maker in a New York City subway station. Now Michael Joseph Quill, 40, is president of the C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union and a member of New York's City Council. He is a practicing Catholic and a member of the American Labor Party...
...Quill thanked the Mayor, then got ready to pummel him some more. He called for a flat $2-a-day raise for all his workers on New York City's transportation system, which has been losing $40,000,000 a year. Wryly, the Times commented that perhaps here was the ideal case to apply the C.I.O.'s "ability-to-pay" principle...
Whenever long-bearded Leonardo put chalk or quill or silverpoint* to paper, he produced pictures more subtly and precisely finished than most modern "masterpieces." Da Vinci knew how good his drawings were, hoarded the odd scraps carefully. Mostly quick studies of things which interested him, they showed that the giant of the Renaissance was as much scientist as artist...
...Flynn, Bill Jackson, and Paul Champion figure as the only changes in the tentative starting lineup, which, for once, has not been further weakened by injuries suffered during practice. Flynn, who has been playing at the tailback position, has been shifted to wingback to replace Herb Fritts. Jackson quill fill Flynn's former post, and Champion, who played briefly in the Rochester game, will start at right end in place of don Swegan...
...American point of view was not presented at the rally by a State Department official, but by such left-wing spokesmen as Michael J. Quill, president of Manhattan's powerful Transport Workers Union, and Norman Corwin, radio writer. Also present to provide the glamor expected on such an occasion were Sono Osato, Luba Malina, Margo and the Broadway stars. (Frank "Harvey" Fay, a Roman Catholic, later went roaring to Actors' Equity against participation of stage folk in "a Red meeting" where the Roman Catholic Church was denounced...