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...Whelan, the new ambassador, is a staunch Republican, and onetime Republican state committeeman, in a state where Democrats are as rare as Republicans in Alabama. He opposed Langer in the Republican primary for the Senate in 1940, but it proved to be a friendly act: Whelan's candidacy split the anti-Langer vote, and Wild Bill won easily. But why should Harry Truman be interested in such Republican matters? The fact is that unpredictable Bill Langer votes with the Administration more than half the time, and has never been paid...
...play. All games played showed at least one side operating shorthanded. The most logical explanation was the obvious superiority of the rampaging Hollis-Stoughton team which had hitherto crushed all opposition. Manager Art Amsie of the Stoughtons, in a determined effort to recreate interest in the pennant race, split up his team temporarily and gave many of his regulars a rest in the games that Stoughton played this week, both of them against Holworthy...
...press did not maintain a solid front as far as the size of the crowd was concerned. Most papers spoke of 1,000,000 spectators but the Post was satisfied with only 500,000. The split continued in editorial page discussion of the general's talk, the main purpose of his visit. To the Post it was "filled up with platitudes and inconsistencies," while the Herald called the speech "grand," conceding, however, that there were "glaring inconsistencies." The Record found it a "masterly address," but on the same page the daily quotation from William Randelph Hearst ran "Humanity is fallible...
LEBANON (pop. 1,229,000, half of them Christians): independent republic; split off from Syria in 1941. Head of state: President BECHARA EL KHOURY, 61. Capital, Beirut, is an intellectual center with famed American University. Army: tiny but loyal to government, with 5,000 men. Member of Arab League...
Four in a Jeep. The timely story of a four-power MP patrol in Vienna, split by the plight of a Viennese girl in trouble with the Soviet command; with Viveca Lindfors, Ralph Meeker (TIME, June...