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Drop-off point (n.) : Place where copies of TIME come off a plane, train or truck...
...What Right Have I?" A few hours later, a train arrived from Philadelphia bearing the new Attorney General-designate, James Patrick McGranery,*minus an asbestos suit. Fires were immediately lighted under him. Some Congressmen said they would try to hold up his confirmation as Attorney General until they had questioned him thoroughly in his role in the Amerasia case (see box). From another quarter came an even sharper attack ; Philadelphia District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, a fellow Philadelphia Democrat, predicted: "The regime of McGranery will be marked by incompetence, bias, favoritism and ward politics at its worst." McGranery shrugged...
State Department employees will still live behind the Hershey Bar Curtain in the expensive new apartment house fronting on the Rhine (TIME, Dec. 3). Though High Commissioner John J. McCloy is giving up his diesel train and his million-dollar mansion in Bad Homburg, he will keep his big house in Berlin. State has built new houses beside the Rhine for McCloy and five top assistants...
Last fall the Boston School Committee unanimously approved a plan to train teachers to detect juvenile delinquency, or tendencies toward it, in grade school children. The teacher training course which will be given by the Boston Teachers College this fall is based on the method outlined in the Glueck book...
Helping to expose the gambling machines that were milking Newark in the early 40's was exciting: "I had to ride back and forth on the train, look for men who were reading scratch sheets, and try to find out from them where the gamblers operated. I followed a heavy bettor to the gaming house, counted how many times he rang the bell, and ten minutes later did the same. After playing craps for a while on the newspaper's money, I left by telling them an ulcer was acting up. But all this isn't unusual. Most reporters...