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...done as much as any man to stir the workers' rebellion against the sweatshops, came out to face the crowd. "Whose windows do tailors come to break?" he demanded. "It's just like a husband who comes home angry and fretful ... whacks the kids around and smashes dishes . . . Will he go into any other house to smash the dishes? No, he goes to his own home. This is your home, for the Forward is your paper...
...Frankie Sinatra had some good words to say for Prince Philip's sister-in-law, Princess Margaret, whom he met at a London garden party (TIME, July 24). "She's just as 'hep' as any American girl," the crooner crooned. "She'd be a smash if she came to this country. She'd be the best Ambassador England ever...
Luscious Patricia Morison, who was on her uppers in filmdom before she romped and trilled through the Broadway smash Kiss Me, Kate, noted a change in the California climate: "A week or so ago when I sang at the Hollywood Bowl . . . people who used to nod and say 'Hello, Pat' . . . came dashing backstage and threw their arms around me, shouting 'Dahling, you were wonderful...
...bomb smuggled in aboard ship might be set to explode under water at about the same time as one dropped from the air. Its shock wave traveling through the water would crush the hulls of ships in port. A million tons of radioactive water thrown into the air would smash nearby piers and warehouses, splash on others farther away, making them unapproachable for weeks or months. A wind-borne mist laden with deadly radioactive particles would threaten survivors to leeward...
Warshaw takes the speed and racket of modern city life as matters of course, believes that a painter needs to get the same dash and smash onto his canvases. His test of a picture: "Can a spectator, after driving 30-miles-an-hour up a neon-lit, billboard-splattered street, stop off at a gallery and see a painting without slowing down visually?" He hopes that, with his own work, the answer will always...