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...C.C.F. which Jolliffe led proposed more "social and economic planning on a bold and comprehensive scale" and public ownership of natural resources and industries. Said Jolliffe: "Every democratic country is moving toward more collectivist organization. . . . Shall it be collectivism of the authoritarian brand, or democratic collectivism? Dictatorship or cooperation?" The Ontario response surprised even C.C.F.s...
...main street has several liquor stores, but supplies are running low and prices are noncompetitive. The town's commonest brand of blended whiskey is something called "Tom Burns," resembling the $1.49-a-quart variety of peacetime. On one side of the street it sells for $6.50 a quart, on the other side for $5. In Alaska the customer does not ask a price; he pays it. If he did ask, he would be told: "Nobody asked you to buy it." An Army officer sold his badly whipped, broken-framed 1936 Oldsmobile to an old sourdough...
Gala Ghost. Most luminous ghost will be the Newport scene itself. Since 1881, when the brand-new Casino held the first U.S. national championships, Newport has been queen of the circuit. The first tournament consisted largely of local swells spooning English balls gently over the net for a hundred-odd spectators, be-boatered or be-parasolled. But by 1890 the Casino Governors had transplanted an old Barnum & Bailey grandstand, painted vermilion, to handle the growing crowds. The 1907 season saw the inauguration of a Tennis Ball, to which all players were invited on the generous assumption (long since...
...came out best in last week's controversy was Columnist Grafton. When the Hearst papers tried to brand OWI as Communist by citing him as a horrible example, Grafton wrote: "The Hearst press has even dug up out of Mr. Dies's files the fact that I was once a member of a 'front' organization, the League of American Writers. So I was. And I led the non-Communist members out of it. ... If [Mr. Dies] checks further, he will find that the League's official attitude toward the war, at that time, was Isolationist...
...Philadelphia Phillies' brand-new owner Bill Cox (TIME, July 5) last week fired one manager and hired another. Observers were far from certain why he dumped the successful 46-year-old boy wonder "Bucky" Harris for the barrel-chested old Brooklynite Freddy Fitzsimmons. But they were dead sure that he had done it badly...