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...Alternative. From the sands of Palm Beach, the New York Times's Arthur Krock reported the uneasiness of a group of men with whom he talked one night. Among them were Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime ambassador to Great Britain, and Bernard Baruch. They saw a U.S. foreign policy leading to prodigal spending, national bankruptcy and destruction of the very democratic system which the policy sought to protect. Kennedy doubted that such investments as Truman recommended would ever succeed in stopping Communism's spread. The poverty-stricken peoples of the world, he thought, were bound to try out Communism...
Ozone & Indigestion. Nowhere will going ashore be the fun it used to be. In Honolulu, food is scarce, as are rooms in the newly reopened Royal Hawaiian Hotel (on famed Waikiki Beach); auto rental rates are $30 for the first day, $20 for each day thereafter. Yokohama and Kobe are cities of beaten peoples, littered streets...
Duel's promotion campaign-which includes practically every trick imaginable, from dropping 5,000 parachutes at the Kentucky Derby to beach stickers which spell out the title on sunburned skin-makes Hollywood's normally brassy efforts in this line look pale. Duel is currently showing only in Los Angeles; the plan is to blanket the country, area by area, during the spring and summer, releasing some 350 prints before fall. Reasons for the distribution delay: 1) labor troubles have delayed Technicolor processing; 2) difficulties with United Artists have forced Mr. Selznick to set up his own distribution machinery...
Last week at Ormond Beach she played her 40th consecutive day of tournament golf. She sank one 45-foot putt with a breezy exclamation, "Ain't that pretty?" She also won her sixth Florida tournament in six weeks. Muttered one spectator: "Whatta woman...
Died. Colonel Robert Wright Stewart, 80, major in the Rough Riders, onetime board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, who was ousted by John D. Rockefeller Jr. after his acquittal of charges of contempt and perjury in the Teapot Dome investigation; in Miami Beach...