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Gentle as a Razor. When Vice President Nixon arrived at the Ambassador on the appointed day, the hotel was jammed with a record turnout of 2,520 cheering California Republicans. Absent: Governor Knight, Knight's Lieutenant Governor Harold J. Powers and Knight's State G.O.P. Chairman Thomas W. Caldecott. Goody Knight's telegraphed message was so obviously cool that Luncheon Chairman Krehbiel would not read it out or show it to reporters...
Once. Attlee complained, Bevan "sprang to the dispatch box and gave me a public affront." Bevan had also publicly chided his party leaders for being absent from the House of Commons during one of his speeches. "That," said Attlee, "was unpardonable." Attlee's windup revealed his own misgivings over his handling of the Bevan revolt. "I have tried and failed to get unity ... I have been abused for not taking action, for weakness and dithering." Now he was taking action. He demanded the highest penalty: "Withdrawal of the whip," i.e., releasing Nye from party discipline...
...When Spencer Tracy steps off the streamliner into the Arizona hamlet, it is the first time the train has stopped there in for years. Vast desert countryside, in CinemaScope, presents an appropriately morbid and untrammeled background for Black Rock, which contains the usual lawless gang and hapless sheriff. Conspicuously absent, however, is the stereotyped melodrama which might have brought Bad Day at Black Rock down to the level of typical cowboy films...
...many years, organized expression of a conservative point of view has been conspicuously absent among College student groups. A need for a true conservative club, bound neither to one party nor to one political figure, has become increasingly apparent. The recent non-political start of the Conservative Club seems therefore, especially fortunate...
...Absent from the line-up that went against O.C.S. in December will be Bob Barnett, Bob Hastings, and Dick Hurley. All three are now with the varsity...