Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Headwork. In Bryn Mawr, Pa., surgeons found Factory Worker Freda McKeith partially scalped by a whirling drill, hastily sent for the scalp, successfully sewed...
...smoky Virginia hills near Washington, Chet Bowles has a white frame house, his own brook, a big swimming pool. There live his second wife, "Steb," a former social worker whom he married in 1934, two daughters, a son, two spaniels, four Persian cats. In the evenings he likes to sprawl on the living-room rug, surrounded by his family, with a cocktail and the afternoon papers. On mild weekends, he likes to have family picnics, with a bountiful supply of hot dogs and cold milk...
...American Labor Party's busy doorbell ringers were not quite enough to elect their beloved Commentator Johannes Steel (TIME, Feb. 18) to Congress. Candidate Steel, endorsed by Fiorello LaGuardia, Henry Wallace and the Communist Daily Worker, lost to Democratic wheel horse Arthur G. Klein by 4,000 votes...
Shock-haired, 45-year-old Sam Allison, director of the new Institute of Nuclear Studies, said that the Manhattan Project had ruined him by turning him from a good research worker into a bureaucrat. Said he: "Scientists want to publish their work so that it will do the most good for mankind. The Army wants to pay us to produce things, and keep quiet...
Communists pleaded for 1,000 of the faithful to ring doorbells in Steel's behalf. The Daily Worker reported that 100,000 pieces of campaign literature had already been published, with another 200,000 in the works. PM, which occasionally (but not in this case) wanders from the party line, hopped in with a glowing story on the virtues of Party-liner Steel. Ex-Sergeant Marion Hargrove agreed to head a veterans' committee already heavily loaded with other left-wingers...