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...current outbreak is so severe that Communist authorities are worried about a drop in output. They have ordered miners to wet down the pit walls, to lay the dust, and to wear long rubber boots. But it is impossible to suppress the dust entirely, and the Russians are not copying the German plan of rotating the miners after two years. Before that is likely to happen, many a Schneeberg slave worker will be dead...
...native Spain ever since Franco. Last week it fluttered through the conversation of Madrid's arty set as persistently as one of the master's mechanical Communist peace doves. While suspicious plainclothesmen strained to detect something subversive in the highbrow cafe controversies, the government wondered how to suppress Spain's liveliest and most political art wrangle in 15 years...
Robert B. Choate '20, publisher of the Boston Herald, said last night that he had never attempted to suppress the opinions of John H. Crider, Herald editor who resigned Sunday. Crider, a Nieman Fellow in 1940-41, had said his resignation stemmed from the publisher's refusal to print his review of Senator Taft's book. "A Foreign Policy for Americans...
Thus Spain last week was treated to the rare spectacle of laymen trying to suppress a religious book. The hierarchy, having given its imprimatur, was not likely to withdraw it. Historic truth must be placed before petty local susceptibilities, editorialized Madrid's Catholic daily, Ya, adding that the behavior of the saint's grandfather proved that divine grace is not a hereditary privilege...
Manhattan's tabloids called it "The War of the Roses." It started last July when Broadway Showman Billy Rose tried to suppress the news that blonde Joyce Mathews, divorced wife of Milton Berle, had attempted suicide in his Ziegfeld Theater apartment (TIME, July 23). Last week he was in trouble again. The scene was the same. His wife, former Olympic Swimmer Eleanor Holm, equipped with camera and a private detective at her side, raided the stronghold, found her husband "not alone." With this evidence, she retired to their Beekman Place town house and bolted the doors. When Rose appeared...