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...Athletic Club, some of the city's leading citizens gave a testimonial dinner to show McCormick how wrong he is about himself. Their proof: McCormick's eight-year-long campaign to get better care for children struck by tuberculosis. "Get this straight," explained McCormick defensively. "I ain't no do-gooder. I don't go out to the hospitals and dandle those kids on my knee. But something had to be done about...
...beats on everything from an interview with a fugitive who had escaped from the Texas death house to an exclusive last year on an attempt to extort $250,000 from 24 of Dallas' leading Jewish families. Police Reporter McCormick has no intention of slowing down. Says he: "There ain't no such thing as the biggest moment in the newspaper business. The real big one is still around the corner...
...press and Parliament, a growing concern was heard last week over what Brit ain is getting for its huge arms expenditures ($4.6 billion a year, more than 35% of the budget). Two years ago, before the U.S. got its new look, the British decided to concentrate on the Royal Air Force's atom bombers and supersonic fighters. The Royal Navy is no longer able to keep up with the Joneses, or even the Ivanovs. The British army is now held down to 450,000 men. Yet after these two years of "superpriority," most R.A.F. squadrons are flying obsolescent aircraft...
...immediate, vehement, and split right down the middle of the aisle. "It's disgusting, ill-mannered," said Lord Hailsham. "A beautiful work, wonderful!" countered Nye Bevan. Privately the Prime Minister-whose distaste for modern art is well known-reportedly muttered: "It makes me look half-witted which I ain't." At the birthday ceremony he commented wryly: "The portrait is a remarkable example of modern art." And when he added, "It certainly combines force and candor," he brought down both Houses...
Many readers apparently were as bored as the reporters. Newsstand sales of papers rarely showed an increase. Complained a Denver newsstand operator: "Sure I read about the trial, but there ain't much holler in the stories...