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Under questioning by Arkansas' John McClellan and his staff last week, officials of San Francisco's 24,000-member Local No. 3 told of lavish till-raiding under tough old (75) Victor S. Swanson, who bossed the local from 1941 until the I.U.O.E.'s executive board elbowed him out last summer. Items...
...Swanson and other officials netted an apparent $44,000 for themselves in a complex deal that involved buying land from the local through dummies and later selling it back to their own union for a much higher price...
With both guests Interviewer Wallace wore himself out beating at a straw man. In questioning oldtime Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, his baiting, inquisitorial manner was not only impertinent, but-worse -not pertinent. It is too late in the century to treat either Actress Swanson's merits as a performer or the Hollywood morals of her heyday as if they were burning issues. For all practical purposes, the Ku Klux Klan is just as dated, but Wallace produced its Imperial Wizard Eldon L. Edwards in a flurry of bedsheets and a flourish of portentous announcements. Edwards, a tongue-tied Atlanta paint...
...Gloria Swanson sits for the network debut of New York TV's most frankly probing interview show...
...hygiene, courses in hotel and restaurant management. In 1954 he took over the dying (150 students) Bergen Junior College in nearby Teaneck, included both campuses in the single full-fledged four-year college. He persuaded a steady stream of celebrities-e.g., Ralph Bunche, Madame Pandit, Perle Mesta, Gloria Swanson-to visit and speak. Finally, Sammartino's biggest dream came true. This June the New Jersey State Board of Education gave the once struggling two-year college permission to call itself a university...