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...last favorable tide began to ebb, the union leaders made one desperate final effort to win the men back from Murphy's sway. "Listen," one of them shouted, "if you'll take the ship out on the tide, you can turn this meeting into an executive session and elect your representatives now." But Murphy shouted him down. There'd be no election, he cried, until tomorrow, "and we'll let the ship lie there tonight." The pimply-faced steward looked at the tall ship and cried gleefully: "Well, chum...
...committee recommended instead that groups "which attempt to influence public opinion" be required to disclose all pertinent facts about themselves, as now required of business by the SEC. Said the report: "Our purpose ... is to enable the people better to judge the true motives of those who try to sway them...
From then on, the leftists knew that they had no chance to sway the convention. They had come primed to fight for the re-election of bumbling R. J. Thomas as a C.I.O. vice president, and thus build up his efforts to take the presidency of the U.A.W. away from redheaded Walter Reuther. But the leftists never got their fists up. Phil Murray, taking note of rumors that Thomas was plotting with John L. Lewis to take the autoworkers out of the C.I.O., called Thomas in and bluntly told them he was through as a C.I.O. top officer. When...
There's an old saying that quarterbacks don't make coaches, but at Soldiers Field Dick Harlow's quarterback of the late 30's has for the last two years held sway as the spirited and successful coach of the Junior Varsity football team. Now one of Harlow's senior lieutenants, Chief Boston is a sizeable cog in the Crimson athletic picture--operating at jobs as scout and head wrestling coach besides at his weekday Jayvee command...
...those who wonder what Russians sing besides the Volga Boatman and Ochi Chernyia, Vasili Pavlovich Solovyev-Sedoi, Russia's top Tin Pan Alley man, has the answer. Sedoi's simple, easy-to-hum melodies flow constantly out of Russian radios. In restaurants and cabarets, couples sway nightly to such Sedoi hits as Nightingale, It's Long Since We've Been Home. More important yet, Songwriter Sedoi manages to please Russia's culture cops, who regard dzhaz as "vulgar musical stew." This year, Sedoi won his second Stalin prize...