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Leaving his seat on the Speaker's dais, Texas' Sam Rayburn stepped down on the floor for one of his infrequent speeches. "Who won the election in 1948 anyhow?" he demanded. Actually, shrewd Sam Rayburn was in a bit of a spot himself. If Goober Cox failed, the FEPC bill might be called up, which wouldn't help Sam Rayburn in his Texas constituency. Under the present rules, any committee chairman can bring his bill to the floor after the Rules Committee has sat on it for 21 days...
...patience of the Chinese people in their misery ended. They did not bother to overthrow this [Nationalist] government. There was really nothing to overthrow. They simply ignored it throughout the country . . . The Communists did not create ... a great force which moved out from under Chiang Kaishek. But they were shrewd and cunning to mount it, to ride this thing into victory and power...
...large obstacle to European agreement was shrewd, stubborn Vladimir Porché, director general of state-owned Radio Diffusion Française, who is determinedly plugging France's new 819-line system* as the European standard. Porché has already put up a TV transmitter in Vatican City and plans to spot TV sets in Roman theaters and public places to win friends and potential customers for France among the thronging Holy Year pilgrims. His engineers, operating on a shoestring, have developed an inexpensive relay network to carry Eiffel Tower telecasts beyond French borders. One such station is perched...
Jerry Kilty, as Ulysses, gives perhaps the top performance of the play. His interpretation of the shrewd Greek strategist, practical, polite, and somehow sinister is a quite convincing one. Hector, who comes closer to being the hero of the play then Troilus does, is a straight and rather dull part. Robert Fletcher handles it well, if with a bit too much restraint. His seting here shows considerably more reserve than in last year's performance...
...hours after the staff had been told, the second oldest Manhattan paper† ran its obituary under an eight-column banner on Page One: "The New York Sun has been sold to the New York World-Telegram . . . Today's issue will be the [Sun's) last. . ." Shrewd, dapper Roy W. Howard, 67, boss of the 19 Scripps-Howard papers, had bought the setting Sun as swiftly and silently as 19 years before he bought the Pulitzers' disintegrating World (TIME, March...