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...with the bald, freckled pate twinkled as he said: "I hope you won't applaud me when I finish this announcement. It might be misunderstood." Then Claude Moore Fuess (rhymes with peas) told his faculty at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass, that he was retiring-after 40 years, 15 of them as headmaster...
...Lesson for Paris. While the conference stumbled on, Moscow's social life tripped on too. At one event (Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet at the Bolshoi Theater), Western observers noted an unfamiliar Russian folkway. As Molotov entered the Ministers' box, the audience began to applaud stormily; according to a fashion set by Stalin some years ago, Molotov applauded back. This went on for five minutes. Belle of the occasion was Mme. Bidault, in a grey chiffon Parisian evening gown that made Mme. Molotov look like a right-wing deviationist...
...name of an actors' agent, broke into the Keith circuit as Fred Allen, touring with the likes of Sophie Tucker, Eva Tanguay, Rooney & Bent. His act began on a dark stage with a spotlight on a placard, reading: "Mr. Allen Is Quite Deaf. If You Care to Applaud, Please Do So Loudly." His suit, he confided to the audience, had been made in Jersey City-"I'm a bigger man there than I am here...
What he said (see below) caused most of the Congress to look unusually grave. There were a few exceptions: midway in the speech, Republican Leader Bob Taft took off his glasses, rubbed his face and yawned prodigiously in his front-row seat. When the Congress rose to applaud at the end of the speech, Harry Truman's grim expression was outdone only by that of New York's Communist-line Representative, Vito Marcantonio. To be different, Little Marc "applauded" by tapping his palm with a cigaret...
Americans could applaud Lilienthal's statement. It had the ring of truth. But the problem was not simple. There is at work in the U.S. an active, aggressive, malignant thing-conspiratorial Communism-which must be rooted out. It is fairly easy to recognize it in men like Gerhart Eisler...