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...appearance and manner, the 600 sedate delegates who moved into New York's Commodore Hotel last week might have been members of the Cost Accountants Association. They were, in fact, the fulltime, salaried union officers of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, on hand for their 13th convention. In earlier years, C.I.O. conventions sometimes left a trail of broken chairs, smashed ash trays, torn tablecloths and echoes of roaring battles on the convention floor. But now the hairlines were drawing back, the waistlines were pushing forward and the blood was cooler...
...Persian lamb cap, Liaquat helped the late Mohammed Ali Jinnah achieve the separation of Pakistan as a state in the 1947 partition of India, and succeeded Jinnah as its ruler. In the restive world of Islam, where the way of the moderate is hard, he was the 13th political figure since 1945, and the fifth this year, to be brought down by an assassin...
...breezy young man. Lynn White Jr. was a San Francisco minister's son who had studied at Union Theological Seminary and had taken his Ph.D. under Harvard's famed Medievalist Charles Homer Haskins. He was an expert on wine and cooking ("anything with garlic in it"), on 13th Century clocks and chivalry ("the culture of the horsy crowd"). And somewhere along the line, he had also become an unabashed expert on women's colleges...
...Five boxers have been fatally injured in the U.S. this year, but the Garden, world's top arena, had not had a death since 1933, when Ernie Schaaf, 24, fell in the 13th round under a clumsy left by hulking Primo Camera. The sportsmen in the hall howled, "Fake!" as Schaaf was carried, dying, from the ring...
...Mann believes in a deepening darkness, he is not the man to write about it. In his new novel (his 13th), he fastens lovingly on the past-a past of piety and chivalry. The Holy Sinner is his reworking of a much-told medieval tale: a child is born of incest, lives to sin gravely on his own account, but finally, thanks to God's mercy and his own heroic penance, becomes the Pope of Rome. One of Mann's reasons for going back to the old legendary story: his notion that; after him, there may be nobody...