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Black Mark Erased. Gottwald was an earthy, peasant type who liked his pipe and bawdy jokes as well as the bottle. Beneath this exterior, he concealed a vast store of political savvy and cunning. The son of a poor farmer, he was born in Dedice, Moravia, became a carpenter's apprentice, was drafted into Austria's World War I army, was wounded on the Russian front, and subsequently deserted. In 1920 he switched from the Socialists to the Communists, by 1926 was chairman of the party, and a member of Parliament three years later. In 1939 he fled...
Apparently Hlavaty knew what was in store for him: according to the New York City charter, he would automatically be dismissed for refusing to answer the committee. Said he: "I am distressed today by what is happening to me . . . I have a reputation from New York to California as a teacher of mathematics. Three weeks from today I am supposed to teach a model lesson at a national conference of mathematics teachers . . . What is happening here today means, if not actually, potentially the end of a career which I think in all modesty I can say was a distinguished career...
...home. Even in Chicago, the slums are two stories or three stories high." But Ye's eyes saw other things that surprised him in a different way: "The most remarkable tendency-so many nude pictures. Very usual for you, perhaps, but not for me. Go into a magazine store, and you see so many nude paintings on the cover of magazines and books...
...heart of downtown Detroit stands the block-square, 25-story building that houses J. L. Hudson Co., the second largest* department store in the world. To Detroiters, Hudson's is an institution. One hundred thousand of them shop there every day. But outside the city, the huge store is hardly known. The four brothers who own and run it, all nephews of Founder J. L. Hudson, have a long-standing rule of no publicity, refuse to see the press, and have had only one group picture taken in their lives (see cut). Their publicity director, in fact, is under...
Last week Hudson's gave its employees a significant figure for private consumption. In 1952 it reported in a memo to top staffers, the store's total sales hit $152 million, up slightly from 1951; sales in January of this year showed a 4.9% jump over a year ago, v. a rise of only 1.7% for all Detroit retailing. Long famed for conservatism (it always refers to cocktail dresses as "after 5 frocks"), Hudson's is nevertheless moving with the trend towards suburban stores-and its sales should keep rising. Next year, it is opening...