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...Live & Learn." The newspapers that had scoffed at the "hot gospeller" from the U.S. now wrote editorials of warm praise. Even the Daily Mirror's sharp-tongued columnist, "Cassandra" (William Connor), devoted more than a page to his second thoughts on the man he had called a "Hollywood version of John the Baptist...
...since the coronation-day monkeyshines of J. Fred Muggs had U.S. television inspired such ringing editorials in London papers and public wailing in the streets. But this time the acknowledged villains of the piece were fellow Britons-Foreign Office chaps, to boot. Cried the London Daily Mirror:"What a muck-up the Whitehall maulers have made of Roger Bannister's visit to America. . . The public wants to know who bungled. Who spiked the fastest man on earth by grossly mismanaging his good-will trip to the States? . . . Was it some ninny at the Foreign Office...
...back to enjoy a local show that, if aired nationally, might outdraw Dragnet. The private eye, hired by an angry husband to get the goods on his playful wife, was tuned to the goings-on in a nearby room, as relayed by a TV camera installed behind a oneway mirror in a closet door. Occasionally he snapped a photograph of the television picture. It was strictly routine; twice before his agency had used peeping TV in divorce actions, both times had got evidence enough for out-of-court settlements...
...sofa, both playing the same guitar. Prelude is an idyllic rural scene, with meadows, trees and a clear blue pond; a graceful boy and girl are about to eat a picnic lunch. In The Portrait, Kasiulis mildly lampoons his own profession he shows a grave, bearded artist painting a mirror-like portrait of a model gaily dressed in red and green. All of Kasiulis' paintings are done in a technique that uses a jet-black-underpainted background to accentuate the lightness of the colors. And all his pictures, with the exception of six gay still lifes of flowers...
...Bevan could swing the party to support "a British neutralism" between the U.S. and Russia, "the leadership would be his reward,'' noted the Manchester Guardian, "but there is nothing more improbable in politics than that Mr. Bevan will succeed." Bitterest of all was the Laborite tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000): "Again he has shown that the greatest blunder the party could make would be to elect him leader . . . For who can follow a whirlwind? How can a man who does not give loyalty expect to command loyalty from others...