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...breath he withdrew, in another he wrote: "My Dear Governor- . . . Because you are more experienced in handling the affairs of this State in time of crisis than any other citizen, I feel impelled ... to urge that you consent to seek re-election." Said a Republican leader: "May God bless Joe Hanley for his gracious and patriotic act." This week Tom Dewey cut short his political "retirement" and announced that he would run for a third term as governor. "There is one condition I should like to attach," said Dewey in a letter to obliging Joe Hanley. The condition: that Hanley...
...since 1946 had Russian track & field stars appeared in international competition west of the Iron Curtain. After the Oslo games that year, where they won six events, the Russians withdrew from the 1948 Olympics. Last week, with an eye on the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, the Russians sent a planeload of 40 athletes to Brussels for the 23-nation European track & field championships. In action, they looked pretty good...
...Venice for the International Film Festival, Rossellini shrugged off the missiles with the air of a matador dodging a flying pop bottle. He was stalking bigger game. Charging that RKO had ruined his Stromboli, the film that got Ed Johnson's dander up in the first place, Rossellini withdrew it from the Venice competition and pressed a whopping damage suit against the company. RKO, said Rossellini, had destroyed Stromboli by bad cutting and had damaged its box-office appeal by "improper" advertising (sample: "Raging Island . . . Raging Passions"). Cried Rossellini: "I feel like I'm living in the fable...
...marine line wavered and paused; it withdrew a bit and waited. Then with a final thrust, some ten marines reached the northern crest. They never came back...
Dismayed by the less-than-favorable publicity she had gotten, and hurt by the U.N.'s lack of appreciation, Mrs. Planas withdrew her offer and decided henceforth to devote more of her time to her church, a group called Spirit Science, of which she is president. In a chapel inside her house, Mrs. Planas conducts seances every Saturday. Three years from now, she said at week's end, "according to the spirits, I will become President of the Philippines...