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Died. James Alexander Linen Jr., 73, chairman of the board and onetime (1937-55) president of International Correspondence Schools World Ltd., Inc. (a vast learn-by-mail enterprise with more than a million alumni in 59 nations), Scranton, Pa. civic leader, father of TIME's Publisher James A. Linen III; of a heart attack, in Waverly...
...takes more than one man, or one newspaper, or one committee to focus the national attention on a serious problem. While the U.S. Senate's McClellan committee has produced the national headlines on labor racketeering, it was vigilant newsmen, from Des Moines to Portland, Ore. and back to Scranton, Pa., who sparked the Senate investigation and provided the scattered local fragments (TIME, June 4, et seq.) that fell into a nationwide kaleidoscope of corruption and violence. The pattern of partnership showed sharply this week as Senator John McClellan's men wound up their hearings on union terrorism...
...cities have union bullyboys faced a more obdurate press than in Scranton (pop. 127,600). Their most dogged foe over the years has been sensitive, white-haired Thomas F. Murphy, editorial-page editor of the Democratic evening Times (circ. 57,429). A Timesman for 60 of his 77 years, fighting Tom Murphy is a staunch unionist; in 1904 he helped found the Newswriters Union, a forerunner of the American Newspaper Guild. But in recent years, as labor goons and commissars pushed their thumbs deeper into Scranton's economic windpipe, old Tom hammered tirelessly at union despotism...
Convinced that the committee and the press have "still only scratched the sur face" in Scranton, Newsman Brislin (whose city editor says he has "vinegar in his blood") last week was digging deeper into the story that he has followed for 25 months. Over at the Times, Tom Murphy was banging away with new editorials on an issue that he spotted and tackled more than three years...
...only have Scranton's Big Four avoided union punishment, the McClellan committee noted, but they were honored, after their convictions, at a $15-a-plate testimonial dinner laid on by local A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders. Among the guests: an international vice president of the Laborers Union, the A.F.L.'s regional representative in Indiana, the director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Committee on Political Education, and Joseph Keenan, a vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. itself...