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...many in the House of Commons agreed with Churchill's defense of free enterprise. Derisive laughter greeted his speech. Even the Tory front-benchers were uneasy. Deputy Tory Leader Anthony Eden was flushed during Churchill's speech, and did not applaud. The Tories have rested their case mainly on the claim that they could manage controls better than the Laborites. Churchill apparently thought that if Britain was to have a governess, the Tories would hardly find a better one than Cripps would make...
...Studio Audience: "... A mass of negative flotsam. Open the door of any studio at any hour of the day or night and a faceless group will flock inside to participate in quiz programs, community sings, or to laugh and applaud as directed...
...Hartley Act. His interim appointees to the expanded National Labor Relations Board, they grumbled, had loaded the whole board in labor's favor. But the choice Harry Truman made last week to head the autonomous Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was one that both business and labor could applaud. The man was Canadian-born Cyrus S. Ching, a towering (6 ft. 7 in.) pipe-smoking oldster (71) with 28 years of experience in labor relations...
...Madonna & Child sat tranquil and serene. At the other hung Painter Graham Sutherland's agonized Christ on the Cross, bearing the sins and degradation of the world. Between them, in the center aisle, stood full-throated Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, singing Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner. The audience, warned not to applaud in the church, sat in pent-up enthusiasm which mounted from song to song, until at last, when Flagstad made her final bow, some 20 of her listeners jumped to their feet and silently bowed...
...eager fellow beside him was starting a new page, but Vag quickly capped his pen to free his hands for action. He listened intently as the professor capped his pedantic climax with rhetorical summing-up, cleverly designed to wake the sleeping in time to applaud. Three Cheers for the Reading Period, Vag thought, as he led off the clapping, and then pushing past the knees of the notebook-filler beside him, found the aisle at last and then the stairs...