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Trial. A termite's-eye view of how U.S. Communists bore a worthy cause from within; with Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy (TIME...
...port of Alexandria last week, at piers sealed off from prying eyes, Egyptian longshoremen carefully uncrated a Trojan horse. It came from Czechoslovakia, but bore Moscow's greeting card...
...session, he had to submit a supplementary "crisis" budget which hustled out a summer of prosperity and ushered in a winter of what looked dismayingly like oldtime austerity, as practiced by Sir Stafford Cripps. Britain is not bust but suffering from too much boom, yet Butler's nostrums bore the same cramping old labels (Higher Taxes, Lower Consumption) as those prescribed by Old Austerity himself...
...lady in Star-Producer Sinatra's first Western, Johnny Concho. In the script, Gloria will snap at Frankie: "I'll marry you only when you grow up!" At week's end, Gloria, who married long-maned Maestro Leopold Stokowski in 1945 when he was 63 and bore him two sons, flew to Juarez and signed off as his wife...
...Fair officials told would-be buyers that orders could not be taken, politely parried inquiries on prices, deliveries and quantities available. One reason was plain: few of the items on display were in production. The fair catalogue described some of them as "Russian design, but made in China." Others bore the telltale serial number "00001" of a first model. (To meet a commitment to deliver textiles and electrical appliances to Indonesia this year, Peking was forced to buy exactly the same goods from Britain to meet its own domestic needs...