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Hell & Unemployment Compensation. The papers go after spot news with the same vigor they apply to a crusade. Last year, after the city desk picked up news of a $51,000 bank robbery, the papers sent out two-way radio cars to chase the police and the fleeing robber. Their coverage of the chase won the staff the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting "under pressure of deadlines." At the head of that 220-man staff is Publisher Sevellon Brown, 66, who has bossed the papers for the past 32 years...
This attitude is seldom welcome, for it is subversive in the word's best sense--subversive of the blind faiths which, born in one age, survive in another where they have no application. There are many people who, while vigorously advocating further education for everyone, struggle with equal vigor to keep their progeny "thinking straight" on topics of the day. The arts, literature, and at times even science are equally plagued by this fusion of cultivation and bigotry...
...about education to keep pace with the times. Whether the "old pot" label is as apt this year as before is a moot question--especially since the Corporation has selected a new President from the Class of '28: a man young in both the freshness of his ideas and vigor of his leadership...
...years ago Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art honored him with the only one-man show of a living artist in the museum's history. Last week, nearing his 70th birthday and still going strong, the grizzled old sculptor served notice that time had dulled neither his vigor nor his artistry...
Spectacular Complaint. Stamler carried out his orders with tactless vigor. He slammed 100 gamblers, including Big Shots Frank Erickson and Joe Adonis, into jail, and got indictments against a score of others, including three highly placed cops and a former Bergen County prosecutor. Amidst this furor, Bergen Gangster Willie Moretti was mysteriously killed (at the orders, according to Stamler's hints, of politicians who were afraid he would talk). But Willie, according to testimony, did not die before making one spectacular complaint: he had given $286,000 to a smalltime statehouse aide named Harold John Adonis...