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...Quid Pro Quo. Phil Murray doubtless figured that the week had been worth its loss of sleep. Labor's objective, he had said, could be stated in three little words: "Substantial wage increases." Now it looked as if he was going to get them for his Steelworkers...
...plan put the next move squarely up to Russia. Before the communique was issued there was some speculation that it would contain demands on Russia for a full statement of its political and economic aims. But Truman, Attlee and King asked for a different-and better -quid pro quo. In effect, they demanded that in exchange for atomic information
Playwrights Williams (The Glass Menagerie) and Windham are soapboxing for Life, Growth, Fulfillment and the Future. They set these abstractions up in an English country house, and arrange a match against Stagnation, Snobbishness, the Status Quo, Prudishness and Decay. On Life's side, along with a young flyer, is the young heroine's father (Edmund Gwenn), a rum-soaked old sea captain full of Elizabethan gusto; on Stagnation's side is the heroine's aunt (Catherine Willard), a snooping spinster full of Victorian gentility. The trouble with such highly contrasted symbols is that they themselves...
...Farther down the list are Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Bob Hope's / Never Left Home, with around a million and a half sales each. Anthony Adverse and Edith M. Hull's The Sheik have each sold some 1,190,000 copies. Quo Vadis and the nostalgic travelogue Our Hearts Were Young and Gay also run neck & neck. And Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills is tied at 1,200,000 with H. G. Wells's Outline of History...
...months ago many an astute political observer, even among the old-line parties, was willing to concede that the CCF had a good chance of running a reputable second. It ran a dismal third. Plainly the people wanted no economic didoes, no flagrant change in the status quo. Only in Saskatchewan did the party make any sort of a showing-and in that CCF bastion a CCF success was a foregone conclusion. Elsewhere, the people voted as resoundingly for capitalism as they did for King...