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...ranks, frequently in key positions. But few citizens pay much attention. Last week they had good reason to look, and look again. In New York City 3,500 busmen struck, leaving 1,300 busses stalled, inconveniencing almost a million New Yorkers. The strike was engineered by Michael J. Quill, head of the Transport Workers Union...
...desk. Above the high scarlet collar surmounting golden epaulets, the Commandant's face was stern. Through the open window came the shouts and murmurs of the camp-the Marines' first headquarters camp in Washington. He set down the date-"Sept. 22, 1800." Over rough paper the quill began to scratch: "Lt. Henry Caldwell "Sir: Yesterday the Secretary told me that he understood one of the Lieutenants of the Navy had struck you. ... I can only say that a blow ought never to be forgiven and without you wipe away this Insult offered to the Marine Corps you cannot...
These were the shouts of resentment and dissent. There were other voices in a different key. Salaried C. I. O. officials, a few disruptive leftists like the Transport Workers' Mike Quill in Manhattan, Joe Curran of the National Maritime Union, pledged continued loyalty to John Lewis. Packinghouse workers in Illinois, who had stood in sullen silence weeks ago while Villkie pleaded with them, heard Lewis, voted to go with him. Their action might upset the Chicago Democratic plurality, put Illinois safely in the Willkie camp. Many in the rank & file of the mineworkers in Illinois and Pennsylvania loyally...
Walliser's show is distinguished from rivals by the fact that his inventions are all based, however remotely, on real discoveries. Walliser is now considering a sleep ray for Peter Quill, which will paralyze an enemy's hypothalamus, send him off into a gentle doze...
...Helen Trent are among those he has directed. For three years he provided ideas for The Gumps for Sidney Smith, quit soon after Smith died. He now writes his stuff so fast he can't remember any of his sequences. After listening to three-quarters of a Peter Quill episode of last year, he admitted he had no idea how it would turn...