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...Egyptian Channel swimmers (see SPORT), and smilingly suffered a Parisian nightclub songstress to clip off his black tie when he would not rise and follow her to the dance floor. Across the Channel, the British press cocked a scornful eye at the goings-on. "Never," sniffed the London Daily Mirror, "have modesty and anonymity so ruthlessly been done to death. Never have solitude and dignity been so cruelly scrubbed...
Three days after the fleet left Japan, it dropped anchor off Pohang, a dusty, smelly little town with a mirror-calm harbor. Not a shot was fired. Most of the green-clad G.I. invaders came ashore without even getting their feet...
...York Post, Columnist Leonard Lyons told a revealing anecdote about his self-trumpeting friend, New York Mirror Columnist Walter Winchell. Wrote Lyons: "Walter Winchell arrived at the Stork Club Wednesday night, and asked about the President's broadcast. 'Mr. Truman called for mobilization,' he was told. Winchell shrugged: 'I called for it last Sunday night...
...Photography may do better when the Palomar telescope takes motion pictures of Mars at the next favorable apposition, in 1956. The 200-in. mirror gathers so much light that it can take a snapshot of Mars in a very brief exposure. A continuous strip of such pictures should catch the planet at instants when its image is not being jiggled by atmospheric irregularities...
...down, Benzedrine to pep you up). Last week, when Judy learned that her studio had suspended her again for repeated failure to show up for work, she locked herself in the bathroom, broke a water glass and scratched herself on the neck with the ragged edge. The Los Angeles Mirror headlined JUDY GARLAND CUTS THROAT-and all the sob sisters were off in full cry. Judy's husband, topnotch Director Vincente (The Clock) Minnelli, assured reporters that the incident was "too trivial" to discuss...