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...week during the executive council's meeting in Florida. He simply stated that if Reuther has any differences he ought to work them out within the federation and not by leaving it. This same feeling has been voiced by many other insiders. The big question asked by an AFL staffer is "where has Reuther been for the past ten years?" One of Reuther's main complaints has been that the AFL has done little to organize the unorganized...
...Hicks was insulted by the charge of de facto segregation and when an NAACP staffer had taken a statement she had issued, then revised it and released the revised copy to the Boston papers without informing her, she lost all faith in local civil rights groups. She even refused to let the School Committee meet with any group wishing to discuss de facto segregation. Surprisingly this new hard line policy proved very popular with the voters, especially in lower middle class and working neighborhoods...
...father was French Ambassador to the Vatican. Like the long-forgotten works of other postwar mandarins, her novel berates the crass profit motive in the U.S., speaks of "the grip of money on each face." One episode tells of "Babs," a leggy New York career girl and Fair staffer who marries an Italian-American political boss and goes with him to Sicily, where women have a considerably different role from the one she is accustomed to. The narrator is Gianna, another Fair lady who is fleeing an unhappy past in Palermo. She is shocked to find that the magazine invokes...
Born in New York nearly 63 years ago, Katie Louchheim went to Washington in 1934 when her banker husband joined Franklin Roosevelt's Securities and Exchange Commission. She started work as a volunteer staffer for the League of Women Voters in the late '30s, gradually shifting to partisan work for the Democrats. By 1948 she was a delegate to the Democratic Convention; in 1952-after a bruising fight -she won a place on the Democratic National Committee, and in 1956 was elected vice chairman. President Ken nedy appointed her a State Department consultant on women's activities...
Pictures were cropped to closeups of chinless, earless faces. The Trib s prizewinning front page was now a blotch, with capsule news summaries and headlines that always seemed to end with a question mark. (One staffer swears he received a wire saying, WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING HEADLINE. WRITE STORY FOR USE WITH IT.) A lot of money was spent on promotion: "A good newspaper doesn't have to be dull." And circulation rose a bit. Then the 1962-63 printers' strike smashed the effort. Another economy drive had already got Denson (he missed too many deadlines), and after...