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...objects of TIME'S editors is to make the people who make the news come alive. This week we tell you about a onetime Bronx plumber who is very much alive though not nearly so well known as his new eminence and power would have us suppose. GEORGE MEANY, president of the American Federation of Labor, has long been a force in the labor movement; he is rapidly becoming one of the world's most influential...
Minutes of the Meeting. At 60, George Meany, the Bronx plumber who rose to one of the world's most influential positions, is an impressive man. He is big: 228 lbs., 5 ft. 9¾ in. tall. He is jug-eared, with close-cropped grey hair that has receded far back on his head. His neck is larger than the largest conventional collar size, and his shirts are made to order. So are his suits (eight a year, at $125 a suit). He has huge, deeply calloused, plumber's hands, made to grasp a Stillson wrench...
...time he was old enough for school, he was on the lam from the truant officer. At twelve he knew his way around the pool halls and whorehouses of Manhattan's lower East Side. He had been hardened by a stretch in a Catholic protectory in The Bronx, where the brothers belted him with bamboo canes, and where he had to bust a few heads himself before he taught the other inmates who was boss of the yard. He had his own mob of hoodlums, snarling youngsters who hated the sight of uniformed cops, who could spot a plainclothes...
...Bertram Hall, who is concentrating in history and literature; Adria Holmes of South Hadley, Mass., and Whitman Hall, concentrating in philosophy; Evelyn Janover of New York and Barnard Hall, majoring in history and literature; Shirley B. Johnson of Wichita, Kansas and Eliot Hall, concentrating in government; carol Latter of Bronx, N.Y., and Barnard Hall, majoring in history and literature; Marina von Neumaun of Princeton, N.J., and Holmes Hall, concentrating in government...
...Sanxay Holding, 65, prolific writer of magazine stories and some 20 mystery novels (Lady Killer, The Innocent Mrs. Duff, The Blank Wall}, known to whodunit fans as one of the earliest (since 1929) and most skillful practitioners of the novel of psychological suspense; after long illness; in The Bronx...