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...their harmony rallies in Washington (TIME, April 25), they left behind the impression that they had laid away their troublesome loyalty problem. A special advisory committee on rules had unanimously recommended abandonment of the loyalty rule, adopted in 1952 to keep Southern Democrats in line for the party presidential slate. Advisory committee members confidently predicted that the national committee and the 1956 convention would follow their recommendation, and thereby bury the old issue. But within three days the lid of the coffin snapped open, and the body of the loyalty oath bounced...
...optimistic statement. Much heartened, the Premiers of France and Tunisia got to work again, and at 1:25 a.m. gave out the joyful word: they had reached agreement. Almost choked with emotion, Premier Ben Amar said: "This is our wedding day." Said Premier Faure: "We must wipe the slate clean of past grievances and consider the future." As a reward for Bourguiba, all restrictions on his movements were taken off: he was free to return to Tunisia...
...county offices traditionally held by Republicans. Soapy stumped the state personally, staking in the campaign his prestige, and plentiful cash (donated by the United Auto Workers). On election day the Democrats took Detroit two to one, won five of the eight state offices at stake, swamped the Republican state slate for the first time in a spring election since 1933. Afterwards, the Detroit Times sized up ambitious young (44) Soapy: "The strongest leader his party has had in this century in Michigan...
...Names. Wolfson also named candidates Nos. 4 and 5 to his proposed nine-man slate of Ward directors (the first three: Wolfson himself; Robert Black president of the White Motor Co. : William J. Hobbs, onetime Coca-Cola president). One was topflight Advertising Woman Bernice Fitz-Gibbon of New York, the famed sloganeer who originated Macy's "It's smart to be thrifty," and "Nobody, but nobody undersells Gimbels." The other: E. W. Endter, risen-from-the-ranks president of California Oil East Coast subsidiary of Standard Oil of California. Endter told reporters that he had resigned when forced...
...unworldy stranger prepares the way for the confidence-man, the master-duper. Silently, the stranger scrawls some words on a slate and holds it up for the passengers to see: "Charity thinketh no evil," "Chanty endureth all things," "Charity never faileth." Close by, the ship's barber opens his shop for the day and he too hangs up a sign: "No trust...