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...spotless Embassy the U.S. Government, which does not recognize the De Gaulle Government, had no Ambassador last week. But Chargé d'Affaires Selden Chapin, accompanied by a dozen aides and advisers, arrived from Algiers, made an approving tour of the Embassy's vacant splendors. Then he moved into a hotel...
...Stroke, Charlie Loring (190); 7, Peter Roll (172); 6, Dick West (166); 5, John O'Brien, Jr. (210); 4, Marshall Cohan (172); 3, Selden Dickinson (187); 2, David White (160); bow, Charles Rimmer, Jr. (165); cox, Bill Longmaid...
Died. Percy Selden Straus, 67, onetime president of Manhattan's mammoth R. H. Macy & Co. department store (1933-40), last of the third generation of Straus merchandisers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The high-domed Harvardman ('97) Put aside academic ambitions to enter Macy's, remained the scholar of the fraternal trio which also included (Idea-Man) Jesse, onetime U.S. Ambassador to France, and (Idea-Muller) Herbert. To gether they expanded the cash-policy business started by their grandfather with a china concession in Capt. R. H. Macy's 114th Street emporium, continued by their...
Boston's station WBZ declined to join the 80-station rebroadcast* on the ground that this radio dramatization of Selden Menefee's book Assignments: U.S.A. (a critical survey of wartime America) was more inclined to promote intolerance than tolerance. It was certainly bad advertising for Boston. Said the script: "Nearly every Bostonian you speak to-those who will open up at all-is conscious that something is radically wrong behind the scenes. Isolationism, antiSemitism, pro-appeasement are more rampant in Boston than in any city in the land. . . . The Irish are an absolute majority and run the city...
...idea that the U.S. needed a magazine of native (i.e., non-Stalinist, non-Trotskyist) radicalism. Founder Alfred Bingham, one of the seven versatile sons of Connecticut's Old Guard Republican Senator Hiram, had at the age of 27 already traveled around Europe and taught school in Russia. Founder Selden Rodman, was, at 23, a poet who detested the word pinko and who, at Yale, edited a radical undergraduate magazine...