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...prison, Montgomery tried to make the most of his ride on the slow train to nowhere. He struck up a friendship with a more famous prisoner, Nathan ("Bebe") Leopold of Chicago's sensational Leopold & Loeb slaying, and from him learned how to read and write. After that he kept pretty much to himself, read a lot and spent his leftover time hoping for justice...
C.I.O. Economist Robert Nathan, hired to provide the respectability of statistics for labor's case, admitted there could be no such thing as a uniform wage increase this year. Said Nathan: "Some companies and industries can afford much more than others and some few cannot afford any raise and remain in business." Instead of concentrating on more money, most union demands centered on what used to be known as "extras"-health insurance, pensions...
Distinction. In Newark, Nathan Pinsky and Henry Schrier, found guilty of bookmaking, protested that they were not bookies but "turf counselors" who merely gave advice on horseflesh and charged a fee of 10% of the winnings...
...present, WFDR will concentrate on news and music. Five nights a week five liberal commentators (John Carmody, Robert Nathan, Marquis Childs, Mrs. Raymond Clapper, John Herling) will alternate in bringing the news from Washington. WFDR hopes to supplement forums, educational and health programs with string ensembles, choral groups and dramatic shows supplied at times by I.L.G.W.U. talent (in 1937 an I.L.G.W.U.-produced revue, Pins and Needles, was an outstanding Broadway success). Boasts big, white-haired Frederick Umhey: "We plan to make WFDR the most articulate town-meeting hall, the outstanding music hall, the most attractive cultural center in New York...
Some four hours before the umpire yells "Batter Up" this afternoon to start the annual Harvard-Yale baseball game, the Rev. Nathan Wood, Paster of the First Baptist Church, Arlington, will deliver the invocation to the Radcliffe graduating Senior Class. An ambitious scribe might well draw an analogy here and point out that with the advent of joint instruction, Radcliffe is finally coming into the big leagues; that Harold L. Ickes is warmed up and will deliver the pitch,--and that the Radcliffe Class of '49 is fielding the largest number of married students in history...