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...surprise when Judge Taylor last year issued an order against interference with the high-school integration program in Clinton. At first he had denied Negro petitions for admission to the all-white school, by declaring the legality of "separate but equal" facilities for Negroes. His reversal-with the stiff injunction against meddling-came on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court's desegregation decision, which ruled out the old separate but equal precedent. And when violence and rioting followed in Clinton (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.), it was Little Bob Taylor who sternly slapped the racial agitators with criminal...
Canada and the U.S. want to get along, can get along, and most of the time they do get along. But the closeness of contact makes irritation inevitable. In the last three years Ottawa has sent half a dozen stiff notes to Washington protesting U.S. trade restrictions. The case of Canadian Diplomat Herbert Norman, who killed himself in Cairo after a U.S. Senate subcommittee revealed that he once had Communist connections, inspired bitter diplomatic notes and an outburst of anti-U.S. editorials. Proud that their currency is robustly solid, Canadians are furious when some U.S. shopkeeper or cab driver...
...excellent actress who possesses a fine comic opera voice. John Bernard has an extremely able voice and he appeared quite natural in his role as drummer-boy, later King of Barataria. As his beloved, Marjory Harper carries off her imperious airs very well, but she appeared somewhat stiff in her love scenes...
...throne room at Columbia Pictures resounded with the whoosh of an outsized riding crop swung in anger. Scepter in hand, striding before two rows of Oscars at stiff attention behind his vast desk, Columbia's stubby and balding Boss Harry Cohn fumed with the king-sized wrath of the last Hollywood despot who still runs the studio he built. The year was 1953, the object of his wrath Rita Hayworth, Columbia's reigning love goddess; Rita had flounced out and left the studio with a costly stack of properties bought just for her. Before Cohn's desk...
Appearance: Stocky (5 ft. 6 in., about 200 Ibs.), trim, with an old cavalryman's stiff yet colorful swagger, a hard face that creases into an Ike-size smile. "A man of the earth," says the U.S.'s Paratrooper General James Gavin. "Short, pudgy fingers and a lot of brains...