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...Scottish nutrition expert with the longest white eyebrows in public life last week took the center of the world food stage. Sir John Boyd Orr (65), Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, convened his group in emergency session in Washington. "This is no '90day' crisis," Sir John warned. An organization must be established to see "that the people of the world will never again suffer from famine...
...least one strike was permanently settled last week. The C.I.O. United Electrical Workers got together with Westinghouse Electric Corp. 115 days after they had walked out. It was the longest major strike of the postwar period-two days longer than the autoworkers' against General Motors and almost twice as long as U.E.'s wage fight with General Electric Co. But Westinghouse's 75,000 workers, who lost about $73,830,000 in wages during the strike, won little, if anything more than their brothers and sisters who had struck other electrical companies. The general pay increase...
Next day the Yanks' Ernie Bonham pitched a two-hit game, to break the American League's longest winning streak in 15 years...
...long-time staff member, Isabella Van Meter, who joined TIME shortly after it was founded, suggested that it would be nice if everybody could know what was going on around TIME Inc. She was promptly given the job of finding out for everybody. (This week, after one of the longest editorial tenures on TIME Inc., I. Van Meter resigned her editorship of F.Y.I. and prepared to go to China to work with her doctor-husband...
...name veterans looked as good as they had been touted. The Indians' Bobby Feller and the Yankees' Spud Chandler pitched shutouts. The Tigers' Hank Greenberg and the Yankees' Joe Di Maggio hit home runs. The Red Sox's Ted Williams smacked the longest ball (440 ft.) seen in Washington's Griffith Stadium in 15 years...