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...Eartha: "That's a very silly question. Of course I would if I was inclined to be in love with him. But one or the other of us would have to go into the background." Unabashed, Tex swung again: "Would you marry a paleface?" Victim Kitt, still taken aback, said: "Yes, if I loved...
...Russia." But when he complained that he had been misquoted in the U.S. press as saying that he and the Russians were going "arm in arm," U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen pointed out that that was exactly how he had been reported in Pravda. Tito looked a little taken aback. He had only wanted to say. he insisted, that he and the Russians had marched arm in arm in World...
...editors' convention in Washington a few weeks ago, Chief Editorial Writer Lauren Soth of the Des Moines Register was taken aback by a colleague's question: Why doesn't the Register run anything about anti-Negro discrimination in Iowa? The questioner: Editor in Chief Grover C. Hall Jr. of Alabama's Montgomery Advertiser (circ. 60,144), who has been campaigning editorially for Northern papers to cover the racial, problem in their areas (TIME, April 23). Des Moines's Soth* replied that the problem simply does not exist. But after he got home, Editor Soth...
...Chicago conference on his return from the Florida primary, Adlai Stevenson was taken aback by a TV man's vague question: "What about Harriman?" All Stevenson could find to reply was, "Well, what about him?" When the skilled questioning by a reporter brings a reply that makes news, TV gets the benefit; the news can be telecast long before the reporter can get his story into the paper...
...Taken aback, Roberts replied: "I am but a child of God." But the press pounced on him. SALVATION CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN, headlined one paper. The national weekly Truth called him "at best a big blabbermouth." Sydney's Daily Telegraph demanded that he be "sent packing." Reporters discovered that Roberts had checked in at Sydney's swanky Glen Ascham Hotel under an assumed name. Said Roberts: "Christ has no objection to prosperity...