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Part Payment. The triumphal tour was the kind of stuff that winsome movies are made of. The girls themselves range in age from 15 to 28, have been rehearsing for their tour for the last two summers. Conductor Sirpo, 60, is a harddriving; expatriate Finn who wants the old countries to understand the deep-down values he has found in the U.S. "I felt the need to repay America for giving me so much," he explains, "and for a music teacher, music is the only way to repay something. I wanted to show Europeans what young Americans...
WHEN TIME did its first cover on Labor Leader WALTER P. REUTHER (Dec. 3, 1945), the researcher on the story was Blanche Finn. Last week, as NATIONAL AFFAIRS Writer George de Carvalho wrote the second Reuther cover, his researcher also was Blanche Finn. In between, she worked on cover stories about the A.F.L.'s late President WILLIAM GREEN, the C.I.O.'s late President PHILIP MURRAY, the A.F.L.'s new President GEORGE MEANY, the Musicians' JAMES C. PETRILLO and the Maritime Union's JOE CURRAN, among others. As a result, she is on a first-name...
Researcher Finn knew about unionism and unions before she came to TIME, twelve years ago. She learned in labor's own school of hard knocks. She handed out leaflets at the gates of industrial plants and once got roughed up on a picket line. David Dubinsky hired her as an organizer for his A.F.L. garment workers, and Sidney Hillman hired her away to write for his C.I.O. clothing workers' Advance...
...research on TIME's last labor cover story about the A.F.L.'s Meany (March 21), former C.I.O.-A.F.L. Employee Finn received congratulations all around. Wrote a C.I.O. chieftain: "Nice work, kid, on that Meany piece . . ." Cordially yours...
...Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Swiss Family Robinson, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Just So Stories, Ivanhoe, the Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare, Tom Sawyer, and Treasure Island. For the 13-year-olds and up: Lady of the Lake, The Call of the Wild, David Copperfield, Huckleberry Finn, Lays of Ancient Rome, A Tale of Two Cities, Idylls of the King, Westward Ho!, Lorna Doom, Kidnapped and Two Years Before the Mast...