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...Stateville prison in Joliet, Ill., the warden said that Inmate Nathan Leopold, now a bald 48, who teamed with Richard Loeb in the brutal 1924 "thrill murder" of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, has been a "very good" prisoner. He works as an X-ray technician in the prison hospital. Through the prison school and correspondence courses, he has learned "about 25 languages." Next New Year's Day he will be eligible for parole. His plans? Said the warden: "I don't think he knows himself what he'd do if he ever gets...
...three months, the WSB heard witnesses and deliberated. At the outset, Chairman Nathan Feinsinger, a law professor, was instructed that the board was not to consider the ability of industry to pay wage increases. Once, when Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam telephoned Feinsinger to find out how things were going, Feinsinger abruptly told Putnam that his question was improper (although Putnam was supposed to be working on the same case). During one last grueling session of the board, Feinsinger fainted dead away. The steelworkers themselves almost fainted with joy when they saw the results. The WSB, over the objections...
...General Van Fleet's Eighth Army headquarters last week, an Air Force contingent from Washington-acting Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan Twining, Air Force Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatric and six major generals-conferred on the air situation. Three days later some 70 U.S. Thunderjets attacked a North Korean officers'-training school near the Yalu, smashed and burned the barracks that housed 1,500 enemy cadets. When the enemy's MIGs tried to interfere, escorting U.S. Sabres shot down twelve of the Red jets. The indications were that more heavy U.N. air blows were on the schedule...
...Manhattan, Critic George Jean Nathan, 70, an amateur baseball fan, told the New York Times that there were some things still beneath his notice: "I take no interest in politics . . . It is the diversion of trivial men, and when they succeed at it, they become important in the eyes of more trivial...
...subcommittee to restate the urgent case for air power, 53-year-old Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt Vandenberg was rushed to Doctors Hospital for an emergency "serious abdominal operation." At week's end his condition was reported "satisfactory." Acting Chief of Staff during his convalescence: General Nathan F. Twining...