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There was more trouble when Du Pont and other competitors raised their rayon prices in December. Bazelon vetoed any price hike for North American and American Bemberg. He ordered them to continue selling at 10% below the general market price. The irate directors resigned in a body...
...Schnabel does most of his walking in Manhattan's Central Park. He first came to the U.S. nearly 30 years ago, and is now a U.S. citizen. But he still likes to go back to Europe every year, to visit old friends, and to hike in the Swiss Alps. He wears his fame lightly: he seems much prouder of his two sons (Karl Ulrich is a concert pianist who sometimes appears in joint recitals with his father; Stefan a Broadway and Hollywood actor). And he is much more anxious to be praised as Composer Schnabel...
...Dean Bender told a Student Council committee yesterday, as the three-man body took the first step in its investigation of the recent increase. Bender assured the group, however, that no undergraduate with an otherwise satisfactory record will be removed from the College as a result of the price hike...
Unmarried students will get a pay boost of $10, increasing their allowance to $75 a month. Men with wives receive a $15 hike, while one or more children warrant a rise...
Still awaiting President Truman's nod, the bill, according to a high White House spokesman, probably will be signed over the weekend. It would hike single vets' payments from 865 to 875, and would bulge married men's checks up to 330, according to the number of their dependents...