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Delicate Matter. Inspired, the press-agents drew up a five-part memo titled "Various Aspects of the Ricardo Baby in the I Love Lucy Publicity and Promotional Campaign." In the protocol, all present swore "that there must be absolutely no word about the baby released out of any office before Dec. 8." Only then were 40 million televiewers to be let in on the secret of Lucy's pregnancy. Plans were laid to tie in the show with the Columbia record of There's a Brand New Baby at Our House and I Love Lucy, both sung...
Last week Dean Acheson flatly refused to dismiss Career Diplomat John Carter Vincent, the Old China Hand whose loyalty has been found in "reasonable doubt" by the President's Loyalty Review Board (TIME, Dec. 29). In a long memo to Harry Truman, the Secretary of State argued that he could not fire Vincent, as the LRB recommended, until he had "further guidance...
Truman okayed Acheson's memo...
...Germans, and 2) quarreling with party leaders. Snapped Guingouin: "When are they going to make their auto-criticism and admit their fundamental error?" The party leaders replied by firing him from all executive party jobs. Guingouin fought back with a stream of letters to Communist journals and a confidential memo saying party bureaucrats had "lost all touch with the working masses." He hinted that, if expelled from the party, he might tell...
...this, added the directive, should convince Americans that "Italian youth will never cooperate with them in case of war." Above all, concluded the directive, never let the visitors know that the nastiness was planned. "One should be rude," said the memo, "but with spontaneity...