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The European Recovery Plan last week cleared its first major hurdle. On Friday an ERP bill received the virtual approval of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, subject only to final review on Tuesday. The bill that will be reported out differs from the measure requested by the President in three principal categories: (1) amount; (2) administration; (3) conditions of aid.
HAVING acquired considerable prestige and also a comfortable debt-load with Barrie Stavis' "Lamp at Midnight," the New Stages troupe has come up with a singularly trenchant melodrama. It is Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Respectful Prostitute," which opened in Bleecker Street last Monday evening.
The stock market along with the commodities ran headlong last week into a hailstorm of political bickerings.
retail levels fluctuate; price war cuts some items sharply while others rise; NYC prices cited
Talon wins San Antonio Handicap
1948Art Spiegelman, Swedish-American cartoonist and critic[†]
Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman, professionally known as Art Spiegelman, is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker. He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman. In September 2022, the National Book Foundation announced that he would receive the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.