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From Cannes on the languorous Riviera came a romantic dispatch from Columnist Elsa Maxwell. She had overheard a conversation between Heiress Barbara Hutton and her new (fourth) husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. Heiress Hutton: "Igor, you are so vague today." Prince Igor: "Naturally, darling, when I am living in a wonderful dream." Crowed happy Columnist Maxwell: "A neat phrase, and he looked as though he meant it." Barbara was going to take Igor to her nest in Tangier, said Miss Maxwell. "Barbara's bathroom looks out on a minaret. Every evening as the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer...
...Columnist Marquis Childs, who does not often scold the Truman Administration, had an acid suggestion for the Attorney General: "If Clark looks around suddenly at a Cabinet meeting, he is likely to find a culprit or two within arm's length. Two fundamental errors of the Truman Administration contributed to the price spiral. One was the repeal of the excess-profits tax. The other was . . . the encouragement of labor in demanding additional...
According to Columnist Ruark, onetime Navy gunnery officer in the European Theater, Lee had not changed much with peace. While G.I.s listened, Columnist Ruark kept his whistle blowing for five days running. Some of his accusations: EURJ As Mediterranean Theater commander, General Lee maintained three swanky permanent quarters in Rome, Florence and Viareggio...
...going to blow a loud whistle on Lieut. General John C. H. Lee," wrote Scripps-Howard's roving Columnist Robert Ruark from Leghorn, Italy last week. "I hope my beefs reach the eyes of General Lee's bossman, Ike Eisenhower, and I hope furthermore that the General gets a royal eating-out.* He's got one coming...
...Round." "I'm just filling in while Pearson takes a rest," he said modestly. At week's end, as forecast, he was busily bestowing brass rings. The recipients: selected members of the working press. One was the San Francisco Chronicle's Charles Raudebaugh, who, said Columnist Allen, wrote a "vivid and dynamic chapter ... in Our Fair City [Editor: Robert S. Allen], best-selling study on municipal rule in the U.S. . . ." Another was Richard S. Davis, who wrote the chapter on Milwaukee. Three were Scripps-Howard Washington correspondents: Marshall McNeil, Daniel Kidney and Ruth Finney (Mrs. Robert...