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Last week, Britain's ailing (duodenal ulcer) Prime Minister left his hospital bed only to face another, deeply worrisome jigsaw puzzle: how to patch up the torn fabric of his Labor Party. He appointed new ministers (see box) to fill the posts left vacant by the rebellious resignations of Nye Bevan and Harold Wilson (TIME, April 30) and the death of Ernest Bevin. Then he tried to rally his followers against Left-Winger Bevan...
...Then, lower Broadway -the financial district's Canyon of Heroes -began to resound to the clop of police horses, the crash of brass bands, as paraders moved out to lead MacArthur a mile; to City Hall. History's greatest fall of paper, ticker tape and torn telephone books (2,850 tons) cascaded down, filling the street ankle-deep. It fell so thickly for a time that it completely blurred thet lenses of television cameras...
...hospital and have a rib and half of one lung removed. After that he was able to return only occasionally to the Senate, and he had a presentiment that he would never really return to active duty. His wife was dying of cancer. Torn with his own pain, carrying the problems of the world on his bulky shoulders, he ministered to her and nursed her. In June 1950 he buried her, continued alone on interminable trips to the hospital for treatment...
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was the rabbi of a Manhattan congregation at 22, but he was torn between his own theological liberalism and the unbending Orthodox Judaism he preached. "I worked hard," he said later, "to say something in my sermons that I believed and that would also appeal to the people in my congregation." Discouraged, he seriously thought at one point of switching to selling life insurance...
...pickpurses; he terrifies his lover, Nancy; and the chances are that he will terrify you in the climatic scene. Kay Walsh, an extremely lovely and disheveled creature in this film, plays Nancy with lustiness and compassion. Miss Walsh, with her face streaked, her hair flying, and her dress torn, retains a beauty that might even surprise and delight Charles Dickens...