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...wrist, portable sunshine at his elbow, the little darkroom widow waiting at home. He lies on his belly in the snow of the Rockies, prowls the Fulton Fish Market at dawn, gets drenched in an inland lake, and hangs from ladders, chasing-with a hunter's relentless zeal-the fleeting moment, to trap it on the silver-coated strip of paper...
...employees of his Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs that everyone must either make a voluntary contribution to the chest or explain personally to McLeod. The word soon reached the Community Chest's Director Edward J. Keyes, who reacted with shocked surprise. He deplored McLeod's "excessive zeal," and added that "we do not approve of [this] kind of coercion." McLeod refused to explain personally to the press, but sent word through a spokesman that no coercion was intended: he was just so anxious to make a 100% showing that he wanted to see all noncontributors and "lend...
...York Journal-American discovered that Acting Lieutenant Governor Arthur Wicks, along with other prominent officials, had also visited Labor Racketeer Fay in Sing Sing (TIME, Oct. 12). As a result, Dewey asked Wicks to resign. Wicks offered to "let the Senate pass upon my fitness." In its zeal, the J-A was also slightly embarrassed. Among the stockholders of the Yonkers track was the paper's own sports columnist, Lewis Burton, who doubled as the track's publicity man. Burton was promptly dropped by the JA, and Manhattan newspapermen gossiped that other sportswriters were also on track payrolls...
Hygrade was a pioneer in selling pre-packaged meats through delicatessens. Slotkin also pushed processed, ready-to-eat meats, today the main pillar of Hygrade's business. In his zeal to spread such time-saving benefits to every housewife, Slotkin was hampered by Hygrade's lack of outlets west of Chicago. Thus when Kingan's management split hopelessly over operating policies (TIME, March 3, 1952), he spotted a bargain. A year ago, Kingan's owners were glad to take Hygrade's offer of $6,500,000 for 94.1% of Kingan's stock...
...balance all the admitted evils of a sales tax seem less than those of the probable alternatives of again boosting income and corporate taxes. At least, a federal sales tax would make all citizens conscious of the cost of Government, and by so doing, increase by that much their zeal to keep it down...