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Fiorello LaGuardia, old-scold columnist for 1) PM, 2) Sachs Quality Stores, tired of having his Sachs column rejected by Manhattan papers,* wrote something different, prayed in print: "I hope no fault will be found with it." Bulk of his column: Little Bopeep, Sing a Song of Sixpence, three other nursery favorites. That got printed-except by the Daily News...
...villain of the piece, for some reason, seemed to be store-clothed Harry Truman. Although it was not the President's fault that the millers, who had once taken so much pride in their patterns, were unwilling to clothe low-grade flour in the same finery, he had started the trouble. And the prospects were devastating. The Pillsbury Flour Co.'s Dallas manager sighed: "They used to say that when the wind blew across the South you could see our trade name on all the girls' underpants. Now they'll all read EMERGENCY...
...cast's fault that the picture fails to come through. Nor is it Ford's either, for the most part. It is primarily the Hollywood tradition of giving the customer the largest amount of fireworks in the longest possible picture (two hours and fifteen minutes, to be exact) that has conspired to ruin an otherwise excellent war epic...
...fault-they all begged...
...Segovia, the plump little Caudillo told 3,000 lean Spaniards that, just by looking at them, he could see they were "really short of nourishment." He blustered: "It is the fault of outside nations which deny us many things." Franco's solution: "If we can't progress looking outward, then we'll progress looking inward...