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...secret passion, which, he hoped, would call attention to the grave injustices done him since that day in 1931, when, as a generator wiper for metropolitan New York's United Electric Light & Power Co. (which later became part of the Consolidated Edison company), he was felled by a whiff of gas. The way he saw things, Con Edison's refusal to support his claim for compensation, and the "perjury" of fellow employees who abetted the company, had made him forever dependent on the sisters, who worked respectively in a button factory and a brass mill...
Sweet Smell of Success. In Olympia, Wash., wrung out after an all-night vigil at a maternity hospital, proud father John Arends bent to kiss his wife as she was wheeled from the delivery room, caught a lingering whiff of ether, passed out cold on the concrete floor, was rushed to emergency for eight stitches in his face, repairs to two broken teeth...
Subject of his observation: the beautiful, slightly mysterious "woman with a past" who appears, unannounced, amid the pastel parasols of a fashionable resort, bringing with her a whiff of evil−that exquisite cliche beloved by turn-of-the-century authors from Tolstoy to Henry James. She has now been revived by a determinedly anonymous author, in an engaging and disturbing period piece. The lady is called Madame Solario, and her setting is Lake Como...
...come to grips with many others." Whenever the 84th got too blatantly political, it was slapped ba-k. The Presi dent made his veto stick on the Southern-Democratic-sponsored natural gas bill, al though he was "in accord with its basic objectives," because he got a strong whiff of "arrogant" lobbying (TIME...
...Britain, military and political leaders are openly discussing drastic readjustments in the armed forces based on the new weaponry, e.g., possible abolition of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command as the day of missiles draws closer (see FOREIGN NEWS). In the U.S. a whiff of a plan formulated by Chairman Arthur Radford of the Joint Chiefs to cut the U.S. armed forces by 800,000 men over the next four years caused a press uproar last fortnight (TIME, July 23). In the absence of open Pentagon discussion, U.S. moves in Britain's direction were best visible last week...