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Gregory Ratoff, Hollywood dialect comedian-turned-director, got nowhere when he tried to buy T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party. Informed of Ratoff's intent, Eliot said: "I've been dreading this for a long time. I do not want The Cocktail Party made into a film...
...ideas of his own and laid the result before the Senate. His omnibus bill was a clumsy-looking vehicle. Nevertheless it moved. It moved along the path of recent court opinions which found Communism a clear and present danger, branded the basic aims of Communism as criminal in intent. It was aimed at Communists and their organizations and fronts, requiring them to register the names of their members and label their propaganda for what it was. President Truman said that he would veto it as an infringement of civil rights...
...small cabin off the flag bridge of an Essex-class carrier, known in the fleet as "the Showboat," Admiral Edward Coyle Ewen sat sipping orangeade, explaining the targets for the next day. Task Force 77 was barreling along Korea's west coast, intent on blasting strategic targets at Pyongyang, Seoul and Inchon. While Ewen was talking, fuel and ordnance men readied the Showboat's planes...
...took his stand on the big political question of the hour. Said Alemán: "Talk has begun, against my expressed wishes, of my re-election as President of the republic (TIME, June 5). I wish to state firmly once more my unbreakable decision . . . not to accept such an intent, and to call on persons working for that end to desist." The Congressmen's responding roar was the day's most deafening. Every ambitious politico among them heaved a great sigh of relief as he saw the track cleared for the 1952 race. Very likely...
Ever since the early days of the occupation, Japan's press had been infested with Communists. Red-led unions, going far beyond the intent of U.S.-sponsored labor laws, had won contracts denying management the right to fire anyone for any reason without full union approval. Thus, by 1946, Reds had gained editorial control of Tokyo's major dailies. Although many of the Red leaders were finally ousted under the prodding of occupation authorities, many lesser Communists remained and management was powerless to do anything about them...