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...novel the whole publishing world is buzzing about! . . . Exposes the commercial snake pit of the book world where power-hungry men and love-hungry women struggle for survival and fulfillment." So say the ads. Actually, The Brain Pickers is a shoddy novel by Hallie Burnett, wife of Author Whit Burnett, that reveals very little about the publishing business, although it may start a sort of human Tangle Towns contest as to the possible identity of its leading, characters...
...young girl held up traffic by turning handsprings across the street. A sailor and his girl friend kissed on the sidewalk. A marine private shouldered a no-parking sign like a rifle and marched off. Car horns brayed; a band came out of a restaurant, and somebody organized a snake dance. Before the celebration broke up at 3:45 a.m., the police had arrested seven men-three for drunkenness, four for disorderly conduct. "Any Milwaukeean ought to be forgiven, because last night was a night to remember," said Judge Robert Hansen next day. "Case dismissed...
...House Interior Committee voted down, by a narrow 16 to 14, Idaho Congresswoman Gracie Pfost's bill to build a federal high dam in Hells Canyon. The Senate had already approved such a dam on the same Snake River stretch where the Idaho Power Co. is building the first of three privately financed low dams. The House committee demolished the high dam after reading a letter in which President Eisenhower said: "It is inconceivable to me that serious consideration is being given in some quarters to stopping this development, depriving the Northwest of power which is badly needed...
...often happens when no real work remains to be done, RFC fell on evil ways after its reconversion tasks were completed. Private lenders complained bitterly to Congress that RFC was making many questionable business loans as political favors. Snake farms, luxury hotels and fancy gambling halls applied to-RFC for loans, and got them. In the latter days of the Truman Administration, congressional investigators unraveled before the nation's scandalized eyes a network of influence-peddling that led in and out of the White House offices, the RFC and the halls of Congress. Finally, in 1953, Congress ordered...
...Office of Defense Mobilization decision to grant Idaho Power a multimillion-dollar fast write-off tax break on the Snake River project (TIME, May 13) started the issue sizzling again. Encouraged, Northern Democrats in the Senate revived their Hells Canyon bill, although the federal dam it called for would flood Idaho Power's three dam sites...