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...reply came at last. Over Radio Peking, Red Premier Chou En-lai flatly brushed aside the cease-fire proposal. Like Wu, he spurned it as a trick designed to shield U.S. aggression. Like Wu, he insisted that U.N. forces be withdrawn from Korea. He added that the cease-fire resolution was null & void anyway, because Red China did not take part in the U.N. debate or vote on it. "Therefore," proclaimed Chou, "neither the Chinese government nor its representatives are prepared to have any contact with this illegal three-man committee...
...they found Happy unpalatable whenever he tried to be baseball's "czar" in more than name. The most famous example was Chandler's year-long suspension of Leo Durocher just before opening day, 1947. Other ranklers: the 1949 suspension of Durocher for hitting a fan (later lamely withdrawn when investigation cleared Leo), an order this year to Owner Saigh to cancel a scheduled Sunday night game (as offensive to "religious people"), and the Chandler project (disowned by the owners) to hire Public Relations Expert Steve Hannagan for $50,000, plus $150,000 in expense money, to "publicize" baseball...
Angelo Patri's syndicated column was promptly dropped by the Providence, R.I. Journal-Bulletin, even though Patri himself had withdrawn his endorsement and returned the check he had received...
Last week Nehru himself took his old alma mater off the hook. Through the Indian high commissioner in London, he informed his Cantab, backers that he wished his name withdrawn. Without further ado, Lord Tedder's election went through. Airman Tedder got the word from his office in Washington, where he is chairman of the British Joint Services Mission...
Commercial publishers have virtually withdrawn from putting out books that do not promise a sale of 10,000 copies or more. But the Press will publish worthwhile manuscripts from its own funds that will sell only 3,500 copies but still break even...