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Last week the New York Herald Tribune's able Radio Columnist John Crosby stumbled open-eyed into what is one of radio's largest arsenals of bridge music. Picking his way through the library at Manhattan's WOR (Mutual), he found on file, under generic titles such as Love, Hate, Conflict, etc., "6,000 bridges,* and believe me [they] run the gamut." Even more to his satisfaction, most of them had also been tagged by their embittered composers with tongue-in-cheek titles "more descriptive than the music...
Last week, one of Editor Wechsler's staffers read the boss an angry lesson on the relationship between Communists in Korea and Communists in Union Square, and Editor Wechsler ran the staffer's blast. Korea Post War Correspondent Jimmy Cannon, sometime sports-page columnist and a G.I. in World War II, wrote: "It seemed . . . that the rioters of Union Square had gone far beyond the rights granted them in the Constitution. They were giving aid and comfort to the enemy and they should have been thrown in jail and tried for treason. Don't give me that...
...chatty letter to Columnist Leonard Lyons, Ernest ("Papa") Hemingway, 51, admitted that events in Korea had not given him itchy feet: "Have no intention of mixing in this one, unless it spreads to Europe where I speak the language and could be some good . . . War gets to be a pain in the [deletion] when you have been going to them since you were...
...Debonair Columnist Joe Alsop flew in to Tokyo with five pieces of luggage en route to Korea, was finally convinced that he needed only a single musette bag. Randolph Churchill, representing the London Daily Telegraph, caused an uproar in Tokyo's Press Club by demanding that he be allowed to sign chits for drinks before he had plunked down his membership deposit. (He was put out.) Almost every newcomer expected to be taken out for one last binge in Tokyo before leaving for the front...
...constitutional date of July 20, had bowed to a decree by Conservative President Ospina Pérez forbidding the meeting but granting the Congressmen's usual 600-peso monthly allowance. Some of the Liberals did meet-in the Hotel Granada Rose Room. Sneered El Sigh's columnist, Julio Abril: "They deliberated over a bottle of Vat 69, taking the matter not only with great calm but also with soda...