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Last week the Bundestag committee reported back: the search had been pleasantly disappointing. Of the 21 top Foreign Office staffmen investigated, only four had records bad enough to warrant discharge...
...worshiped F. D. Roosevelt, only to hear the charge that his policies at Yalta and elsewhere were responsible for strengthening Communism. We worshiped General Marshall, only to see him condemned for losing China to democracy. If, seemingly, our recent heroes have proved giants with feet of clay, what warrant is there for holding that Eisenhower-the glamour boy of the hour-will not bring us more, and bitterer, disappointments...
Still fingering the bruise on his neck, Pearson bustled over to the office of the U.S. District Attorney and swore out an assault warrant against Clark. Flushed with victory, Clark later pranced about outside the Mayflower's main entrance, re-enacting the battle for the hotel doorman and passing Senators. Next day he appeared in court, pleaded innocent to Pearson's assault charge. As for Pearson, whose spaniel-like manner is in contrast with his terrier-type reporting, he got some sound advice from his cook, Margaret Brown. Advised Margaret: grab your assailant by the ears and pull...
...baritone, Mario Filippeschi, tenor, Rosanna Carteri, soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana of Turin, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 8 sides). A rousing version of a masterpiece too seldom performed (its last performance at the Metropolitan Opera was in 1931, and no tenors have looked strong enough to warrant its production there since). Filippeschi blasts out his killing high notes with plenty of steam. Recording : on the shrill side...
...like to that recently carried out in Czechoslovakia, where Moscow-trained Rudolf Slansky was dumped in favor of native son Clement Gottwald. But in Rumania, although arrests of minor government officers and army officers are taking place on all sides, the trouble does not yet seem serious enough to warrant a full-dress trial of the big-time scapegoats. Ana still hangs on to her job at the Org-buro, the organizational center of the Communist Party-in the shadow, but still around in case of another unpredictable change in the weather...