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...noon, Harvester Dupree and his four helpers rode one of the trucks over to the weed-grown yard of the cotton gin in Faxon (pop. 178). Where cotton had reigned, wheat was now king. There were their headquarters-a 27-ft. trailer, complete with electric washing machine and king-size electric refrigerator. From the trailer came the mingled smells of good Texas beef, potatoes, beets and beans cooked by Mrs. Dupree and daughter Doris Gean...
...hoped another week might turn the trick. The strikers had little hope of winning their demand for exclusive bargaining rights for supervisory employees not now F.A.A. members. Nevertheless, they voted to stay out for fear, as one said: "If we go back without a contract they'll weed us out one at a time." This week, in tougher mood, they blocked the cars of scab foremen until police cleared the gates...
Editor Carroll Binder (rhymes with grinder) was no disgruntled aspirant, but one of the Pulitzer Prize's preliminary pickers. He was a member of a nominating jury to weed out contenders for the $500 prize for international telegraphic reporting. Disregarding the jury's verdict (which recommended a prize to the New York Herald Tribune's Arch Steele), the committee handed the prize to roly-poly Eddy Gilmore, inoffensive Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press (TIME, Aug. 12).* It was the A.P.'s eleventh Pulitzer Prize. And an award to Brooks Atkinson (for a fine series...
Stanley G. Karson '48, Chapter chairman, was chosen voting delegate in the Nominations Committee, which will weed out a slate for national elections from an expected avalanche of candidates...
Another famous private school had a new head last week. Roxbury Latin, which, unlike Andover, still makes Latin compulsory for all hands, chose Frederick R. Weed, 41, as the youngest headmaster in its 300-year history. Weed went to public school, graduated from Harvard, was in banking before he took up teaching. A committee headed by Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, an old Roxbury boy himself, picked Weed...