Word: specialized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would run for election to the Senate seat that he now holds by appointment. It was a reluctant decision. When Dulles sat down in retiring Democrat Robert Wagner's vacant seat ten weeks ago, it was with the understanding that he would stay on only until a special election in November. He wanted to get back to his Wall Street law practice and to the field of international relations, possibly as U.S. delegate to the U.N. Besides, although he had twice served as Candidate Tom Dewey's foreign affairs advisor, politics had never been more than a sideline...
...pensions and other benefits. But when it started negotiating with the Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co., the union made a disturbing discovery: the firm, already in bankruptcy and operating in receivership, was so close to failure it might close up entirely if it had to stretch its payroll. At a special meeting last week, the Norwalk rubber workers voted, 124 to 45, to drop their demands and to take wage cuts averaging 11? an hour. Explained Union Secretary Caesar Malaterra: "Members felt it was better to keep working than to take a chance of having no jobs...
While he was gone, embarrassing questions began to crop up. Was it essential for General Omar Bradley to go pheasant hunting in a special Air Force plane? Was it vital to national defense for Navy Secretary Francis Matthews to fly his whole family to a military ceremony in Honolulu? Did Vice President Alben Barkley have to use a B-17 to take a three-piece band to a party for his St. Louis friend, Mrs. Carleton Hadley...
Yesterday & the Day Before. In the wet, early morning, thousands thronged Bonn's churches for special services. Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Brandenburg, a steadfast antitotalitarian, told an overflow congregation in the Martin Luther Church: "We must break our ties with the day before yesterday, for it contained the seed that became the curse of yesterday. Let us create a new day in which God's will prevails." By "the day before yesterday" he meant the Weimar republic...
Besides cheery sex gags, Blackouts offers some highly special specialties-boy pianists, aged chorines and one-legged hoofers. There are also oldtimers like Composer Shelton (Some of These Days) Brooks and Guitarist Nick (Tip Toe Through the Tulips) Lucas; but they don't make things seem like old times. New, and nice to look at, is blonde Pat Williams, as the show's leading lady. Blackouts has its remarkable turns -a female contortionist, a set of trained lovebirds; but in the great days of vaudeville, they would merely have opened the show...