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Long, lean Harry Bridges had Hawaii tied up like a cat's cradle. Sitting in his San Francisco waterfront office 2,400 miles away, he could chuckle as Hawaii's "Big Five"-the five companies* ?which control most of the island's basic crops and business-fretted and fumed. Two strikes had done...
...popular prize awarded at the end of the show. But Carnegie's three conservative jurors picked a far from conservative trio of official prizewinners. First prize ($1,000) went to hulking Karl Knaths for his gray-green, deftly tangled Gear, a composite of the Provincetown, Mass, waterfront...
...seriously oppose him. Two Curran men squeaked in with him. But the Reds held strategic control of N.M.U.'s governing board with three men: Ferdinand Smith, hard-eyed Jamaican Negro, reelected secretary; weary-looking Howard McKenzie, veteran organizer, and prow-chinned Joseph Stack, bullyboy of the New York waterfront, elected vice presidents...
Adet Lin, 23, eldest daughter of best-selling Philosopher Lin Yutang, broke the news in Boston that she had been secretly married a fortnight to Richard Biow, 26, son of a prosperous Manhattan adman. In the couple's top-floor flat near the elevated and Boston's waterfront, Husband Biow told the press: "I guess what drew us together was-well, just our interest in each other." Said surprised Philosopher Lin (The Importance of Living) of his literary daughter (Our Family) : "She will come home after a short period-I have no doubt...
...millions of U.S. cinemadorers who like their smorgasbord straight, wise Warner Bros, are taking no chances. Certain that Garbo is still best remembered as the East River waif in Anna Christie, they will soon exhibit Viveca in an adaptation of Ships in the River, a novel of the N.Y. waterfront...