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Died. Jesse M. Donaldson, 84, onetime $11-a-week letter carrier who became Postmaster General from 1947 to 1953; of a stroke; in Kansas City, Mo. The son of a rural postmaster, Donaldson served as a postal inspector, postal administrator, and First Assistant Postmaster General before becoming the first career man to head the department...
Canny in Court. By the end of last year, Gardner's 140 books had sold a total of 170 million copies in the U.S. Among fellow mystery writers, only Georges Simenon, the Belgian creator of the Inspector Maigret stories, surpassed Gardner in output or ranks with him in sales...
Family of Flies. In a lighter mood, Scanlan's accompanies a health inspector on a kitchen tour of Manhattan restaurants. Next to stars awarded by New York Times Gourmet Craig Claiborne, Scanlan's gives its own uncleanliness symbols: garbage cans. The worst offender (three stars, four garbage cans): the outwardly elegant Colony, where "in the bakeroom a family of flies was eating out of open bowls of strawberries in heavy syrup...
Joseph Fink-a Deputy Inspector in the New York Police Department-answered questions about drug use, demonstrators, and problems of police recruitment during a 90-minute meeting sponsored by a Ford Foundation-funded program which brings speakers to all Harvard Houses...
...week's end Stokes replaced Ellenburg with Cleveland Police Inspector Lewis Coffee, the fourth chief in 28 months. Since Stokes just won a second term in office, the Ellenburg controversy is unlikely to have any immediate political ramifications. There is, however, growing dissatisfaction among civic leaders with his performance. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, which had supported Stokes in his campaigns for office, printed an editorial last week signed by Editor-Publisher Thomas Vail. "Time is running out," wrote Vail. "The people of Cleveland will not stand for another fiasco in public safety...