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...even wept a bit for Max Schmeling, till he turned out to be alive. But last week's outburst was an emotional flood the likes of which few oldtimers could remember. Only attempt to keep his feet in the pool of tears was made by onetime Sportswriter Westbrook ("Old Nasty") Pegler. Wrote he in the New York World-Telegram...
Greatly gratified was Columnist Westbrook Pegler, whose furious finger-pointing had resulted in Bioff's jailing on the old pandering charge, and whose attacks had blown open another A.F. of L. union, the Building Service Employes. Ex-president of that union, George Scalise, is in Sing Sing for stealing members' dues, still has a sentence for income-tax evasion hanging heavy over his head. James J. Bambrick, ex-head of the New York local, was also convicted of filching union dues. Same day that indictments in the Browne-Bioff case were returned, a sick and saddened Bambrick received...
Houses at Audubon Village are neither for sale nor for rent (nor free). Instead they will be occupied and eventually paid for under a system devised by ingenious Colonel Lawrence Westbrook, special assistant in Federal Works Agency. ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, hailing the plan as the most promising housing idea in years, describes the workings in detail in its June issue...
...Colonel Westbrook believes that his plan combines the advantages of both ownership and rental. Moreover, it will give residents substantial savings in maintenance costs (through centralized staff and purchases), will protect them against neighborhood deterioration by insuring that no building will fall into disrepair or be replaced by a hot-dog stand. Still more hopeful is the fact that the Camden Plan is not subsidy housing. Although a small subsidy was provided at Audubon Village to make up for construction delays caused by bad weather and a strike, the plan's basic principle is for projects...
...wartime Broadway success There Shall Be No Night; Marcus Lee Hansen (posthumously), late professor of American history at the University of Illinois, for his historical study The Atlantic Migration; New York Daily News Editorial Writer Reuben Maury "for distinguished editorial writing during the year"; Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler for his columns on scandals in U.S. organized labor; Chicago Times Cartoonist Jacob Burck for his cartoon "If I Should Die Before I Wake," depicting a child praying in a bomb-shattered room; 53-year-old former College Professor Leonard Bacon, for his book of verse Sunderland Capture; Biographer Ola Elizabeth...