People: People, Jun. 30, 1947

The Old Gang

Hamilton Fish, once a Congressman, said he was about to reappear as a magazine publisher; he proposed to counteract Henry Wallace's New Republic influence. Also, said Fish, he would soon have a book out—"one dollar on newsstands, just like Wendell Willkie's book, One World."

George H. Earle, who used to be Governor of Pennsylvania and a U.S. diplomat in the Balkans, survived what he said was his 15th plane crash. When the wheels of an amphibian wouldn't let down, the ship made a dry-land landing on pontoons at 70 m.p.h. Earle's injury: a scratch on the wrist.

Norman Thomas, five times...

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