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Well aware that Morocco needs French capital, Mohammed V reacted with typically shrewd sense. He appointed 27-year-old Prince Moulay Hassan commander of the Royal Moroccan Army (trained and equipped by the French), and sent him out to disband the Liberation Army by swearing its men into the Sultan's own force. Steely-nerved Moulay Hassan had soon sworn in some 5,000 irregulars, sent the rest home except for some holdouts mostly in the deep south. The Sultan himself toured all Morocco, traveling in a huge caravan and camping in tents on the plains. Talking to crowds...
...first time that a Latin American dictator had struck at Jules Dubois. Dubbed the "No.1 Gangster of U.S. Journalism" by Perón's kept press, Jules Dubois, 47. is a shrewd, belligerently honest reporter of the old school who has been pistol-whipped, jailed and shot at in the course of covering revolutions in ten-Latin American countries. During Costa Rica's 1948 revolt against its pro-Communist government, six Red goons worked Dubois over with rifle butts. A month later, while covering a revolution in Colombia, Dubois phoned a blow-by-blow story to the Trib...
Causes That Succeed. Searching for the "elegant, modern, beautiful, and cultured," Edna Chase was a shrewd, resourceful scrapper. For years she feuded (but always in discreet modulations) with Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who bought Harper's Bazaar to compete with Vogue in 1913, later wooed away much of her top talent, including her heiress apparent, Carmel Snow. (Although they often appear to be identical twins, Vogue still leads Harper's Bazaar in circulation, 392,507 to 365,023, and Old Rival Snow, now editor in chief, readily admits "Edna Chase really started fashion journalism...
...wedding march gets off to a fast start with some noisy satire about attire. Kay Thompson is a shrewd old hag who edits a fashion mag. "THINK PINK!" she proclaims, and the women of the U.S. obediently buy pink poodles and pink mink. Then the lady finds a Serious Theme: "Clothes for the Woman Who Is Not Interested in Clothes." But who will model them...
...working at the old family foundry (Bissell himself had worked at the old family pajama factory). When a couple of brash young producers summon him to New York and ask him to turn the book into a play, he feels like an impostor. But with the help of a shrewd director who strongly resembles George Abbott. Jack Jordan attains the rube's satisfaction of seeing the city slickers lined up all around the block trying to get ducats for his play. Show biz is about as comprehensible to him as a Variety headline, and creates a surrealist zone...