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...thought it could control its sympathies. Whether CIA was worried by the Nazi caste in BDJ is not yet clear. But last spring, to its horror, the CIA discovered the BDJ blacklist and learned that it had been played by BDJ for a patsy. CIA quickly tried to shake itself free, but it was too late...
...began trimming costs; he lopped off more than 12 heads in the advertising department and business office, began to shake up the news side. Veteran Managing Editor Charles Doyle was put on the copy desk, and aging (72) City Editor Eddie Dunn turned down a lesser job, quit. Sunday Editor John Griffin, 53, moved in as editor-in-chief and named tough-talking Assistant City Editor J. J. (Joe) McManus, 55, managing editor. Star Reporter John Mannion, 43, became city editor. Fox promised that the Post would become a "lively, aggressive newspaper devoted to the public interest...
Like Joan of Arc and Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe's acting is partly swallowed in the lavish scenery. But the script hurts it even more. Hollywood scriptwriters cannot seem to shake the notion that knights and their ladies were intellectuals, whose every conversation sparkled with neat phrases, like a Stevenson campaign speech. Although they have unshakled the dialogue somewhat from Scott's pedantic and dated prose, they fall far short of realism. The brush off the villian by the heroine, usually accomplished clearly by "get out, you varlet," becomes: "Farewell, and may each stone of this vaulted roof find a tongue...
Whether or not the American people decide to turn their backs on Richard Nixon, he cannot shake off the large aura of unethicalness that $18,000 has placed above his brow. All the enumerations and all the charges of smear and all the evidence of the catholicity of his practise may prove he is clean in intention, but they do not diminish the unwholesome odor that a privately endowed slush fund always radiates...
...crown is not all she'll carry; gifts donated by Square and Boston merchants, modeling opportunities, and more dates than she can shake a lipstick at will be hers. The five runners-up will share in the prizes and publicity...