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Avery, now 75 years old, had not planned his loneliness. When he goaded President Wilbur Norton and four vice presidents into leaving last year (TIME, May 31 et seq.), he persuaded three other vice presidents, who had also threatened to resign, to stay on. But he neither forgot nor forgave their participation in "the Norton conspiracy" to curb some of Avery's dictatorial power. Last month he decided how he would take his reprisal...
...quite curious to note how relatively immortal some of "The Stories They Tell" [TIME, Nov. 15 et seq.] really can be. And how sometimes they do not improve with time (no pun meant) . . . [Here is] a much more recent story...
...Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg in a one-for-all, all-for-one defense against aggression, i.e., by the U.S.S.R. In effect, the U.S. and Canada were joining themselves to the others, who had already formed a Western Union under the Brussels Treaty (TIME, March 15 et seq.) and picked Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to mastermind their joint defenses. "The combined resources of the Brussels Pact nations cannot at this time provide enough military strength to assure effective resistance to aggression," the State Department said. "Because of its preponderant strength, support by the United States is essential...
...months the Metropolitan Opera had endured the barbs of its critics (TIME, Sept. 6 et seq.) with hardly a whimper. Last week, during an intermission of a nationally broadcast performance (and a good one) of The Marriage of Figaro, Met Board Chairman George A. Sloan finally started hurling the barbs back. Some fell in the target area; a few made bull's-eyes...
This week, the Boston Store got a new owner: Federated Department Stores, Inc., headed by wide-awake Fred Lazarus Jr. (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937, et seq.). In the deal, Lazarus exchanged 292,600 shares of Federated common stock (market value: about $8,000,000) for the Boston Store stock. But the Boston Store will be run, as before, by President Richard Herzfeld...