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...night before the convention. To satisfy the A.L.P. and P.A.C. they picked slender, sharp-faced Henry Epstein, onetime State Solicitor General and a member of P.A.C.'s national executive committee, for a 14-year State Court of Appeals judgeship. To add a bit of luster to the slate, they drafted Albany's 36-year-old Mayor Erastus Corning II, an ex-G.I. and Yaleman, for Lieutenant Governor...
...Germany's Russian zone, voters were nominally electing a slate of municipal officials. Actually, they were voting for or against the spread of Communist influence through the Russian-sponsored SED (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands-Socialist Unity Party of Germany) and deepening domination by the Russian occupiers...
...gang of 250 stonesetters, carvers, riggers, glassworkers and structural iron men on the job were putting 27,000 cubic ft. of Georgia marble and 6,000 sq. ft. of Maine slate into fixing up the walls and the leaky roof. They had reinforced the wooden interior beams, which were starting to rot, replaced the stone crosses set atop the spires in 1888. A $25,000 new rose window was being fashioned in Boston. Bronze main doors will replace the "temporary" wooden ones-which have stood for 70 years...
...blast pressure, transmitted through 150 feet of almost incompressible water, crushed the coral on the lagoon floor, turning the color of the water from slate-blue to turquoise...
...U.F.W.A.'s 42,000 membership, Party-liners and hangers-on were well enough entrenched by last month's convention to run the locals in New York, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles. With that core of sure-fire delegates they had rammed through their own slate of officers, headed by Secretary-Treasurer Max Perlow, long-time veteran of New York Communist-front organizations...