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...bills, will effectively block the bills. Despite this sound suspicion, Meany's public blast against Powell backfired, brought to the surface some old inter-union disputes that threaten to split the A.F.L.-C.I.O. In particular, it rekindled a smoldering feud between Meany and able, aging (70) Asa Philip Randolph, head of the Sleeping Car Porters union and conspicuously the only Negro in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. high command. Honest A. Philip Randolph is no steady supporter of crafty Congressman Powell, but he felt obliged to defend Powell and rebuke Meany...
Though both oppose segregation. Meany and Randolph have been scrapping over the issue for months. Moderate Meany has steadily but quietly pressured unions to drop their color bars; in his 20 years of leadership the number of all white A.F.L. unions has dropped from 26 to only one - the 97,000-member Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Even so, there are Jim Crow locals aplenty, and Randolph publicly criticized Meany at the union's convention last fall for not purging them. Meany blew up, roared at Randolph, "Who the hell appointed you as guardian of all Negroes...
Over the years, TIME'S Press covers have demonstrated the spread of TIME'S interest. They range from such press lords as William Randolph Hearst (Aug. 15, 1927; May 1, 1933 and March 13, 1939) and the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick (May 7, 1928 and June 9, 1947) to such comic-strippers as Milton Caniff (Jan. 13, 1947) and Al Capp (Nov. 6, 1950); from such pundits as Walter Lippmann (March 30, 1931 and Sept. 27, 1937) to such scriveners as Walter Winchell (July 11, 1938); from such publishers as the New York Daily News...
...nation Atlantic economic community consisting of the 18 members of the OEEC (the longstanding Organization for European Economic Cooperation, set up in Marshall Plan days), plus the U.S. and Canada. The details would be worked out by four "wise men": one North American (U.S. Ambassador to NATO W. Randolph Burgess); one Frenchman, to represent the Common Market Six (Bernard Clappier of the Finance Ministry); one Briton, to represent the Outer Seven (probably Foreign Office Economic Expert Sir Paul Gore-Booth) ; and one Greek, to represent other Europeans (Xenophon Zolotas, governor of the Bank of Greece...
...their "faultless taste in dress without ostentation or extravagance." The quartet with tenure, who will no longer have to fret about crashing the list: Rome's Countess Consuelo Crespi, Detroit's Mrs. Henry Ford II, Manhattan-Palm Beach Socialite Mrs. Winston Guest, Manhattan's Mrs. William Randolph Hearst...