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...entry resident voiced an unusual inconvenience yesterday. "I don't mind the drilling and sawing in the early morning. I don't mind the hammering. The trouble is that the workmen tell all their jokes in Italian, and I don't understand Italian...
...dingy brick wall of No. 9 Grosvenor Square, where London workmen are still repairing blitz damage, there is an inconspicuous blackened plaque: "In this house lived John Adams, first American Minister to Great Britain, May 1785-March 1788, afterwards second President of the United States...
Last week the Adventists announced at they had signed an agreement with the United Auto Workers (CIO). Adventist auto workers agreed to contribute the monetary equivalent of union dues to a sick-benefit or some other workmen's benevolent fund, and to refrain from backing either side in the event of a strike. In return, they will receive from the union a card exempting them from all dues, meetings and other union activities in any of the U.A.W.'s 900 locals...
...Misty Magdalens" which lie athwart the Gulf of St. Lawrence steamer lanes. In one spot the scrubby balsam firs had been cleared and a power shovel scooped deep into the earth. At week's end, under a crisp, blue sky, a couple of dozen Madelinot workmen stood around with mining engineers and newsmen to watch a diamond drill bite into the cocoa-colored rock. At a depth of 49 ft. the drill hit high-grade ore containing about 53% metallic manganese. With 40,000 tons proven reserves, and 140,000 more probable, it looked like a good thing...
Something for Everybody. The shopgirls and workmen who comprise most of the Mirror's audience get more than politics for their British penny. Says Mister Bart: "There's something for nearly everybody." The somethings rarely include straight news. The accent is on short, spicy stories on crime, tragedy and sex, eye-catching headlines (HE DIED AS THEY DANCED UNDER THE STARS), lively photographs, a caustic daily column by "Cassandra" (William Connor), and comics, ranging from the Mirror's own stripteasing Jane (TIME, Aug. 25) to action-packed Buck Ryan...