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...singers got off the Cunarder Saxoma at Greenock, Scotland, lined up on the pier on the River Clyde and began to sing (Loch Lomond). They kept singing all the way across Britain, Holland, Denmark and Germany-in crowded auditoriums, sight-seeing buses, third-class railway carriages and even on the streets. They had their share of crises, including-at Scheveningen, Holland-the loss of the conductor's white dress waistcoat (two local tailors provided a new one in exchange for a pair of tickets). Everywhere they are stirring up waves of good feeling and applause. Salt Lake City...
Robles & Co. had plenty of work to do in his first week. A smoke bomb exploded in the foyer of a theater where Perón's fascist Alianza Popular Nacionalista was holding a meeting. The police announced discovery of an arms cache and two cases of railway sabotage. Unidentified gunmen speeding by in a car fired a dozen shots at two federal policemen guarding the residence of U.S. Ambassador Albert Nufer. It was reported to be the thirteenth mysterious attack on policemen in four weeks...
Died. Thomas Reed Powell, 75, longtime Harvard Law School professor (1925-50), top constitutional law authority, member of the fact-finding board that averted a national railway strike in 1941; after long illness; in Boston...
...Other toppers on the U.S. labor movement's wage scale: the Railway Clerks' George Harrison, $60,000 a year; the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, $50,000; the Musicians' James Petrillo, $46,000; the Steelworkers' Dave McDonald, $40,000; A.F.L. President George Meany, $35,000; the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther (who gets no salary as president of the C.I.O...
...peroration passed almost unnoticed, since all eyes were suddenly directed to the arrival of a flame-red, air-conditioned Buick out of which flounced Mrs. Mary Tulula ("Militant Mary") Cain, a solidly constructed 50-year-old, who edits the weekly Summit Sun. One of seven children of a railway maintenance supervisor, Mary Cain was born in a railroad camp car and has never stopped rolling ("Never seems to get tired," says her husband, a filling-station operator). Mrs. Cain made her opponents' language seem almost tolerant...