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Dignity of Man. Before a floral blanket of U.S. and Mexican flags, woven the night before by Xochimilco Indians, there was another exchange of greetings. Harry Truman made a little speech accepting an inscribed gold medal, a scroll, and honorary citizenship in Mexico City...
...this week 26 had admitted participation in the lynching, 31 were charged with a blanket warrant for murder. Taking no chances, Greenville's sheriff clapped 30 of them into jail, kept a cell ready for the 31st. Bail was set at $2,500. Among the 31, but not yet identified, police were sure they had the actual trigger...
What most Britons wanted from radio when the cold closed in, they had: a jolly, cozy blanket of comedy, a good piece of it provided by a red-hot young (35) comic named Eric Barker...
...course, the morning Times and evening Star (combined circ. 725,000) would continue to blanket Kansas and western Missouri, as the biggest paper in both states. "The boss of the Star," a businessman-politician reflected last week, "is the most important man in Kansas at any given moment-more important than Alf Landon, Arthur Capper, Clyde Reed, all the congressmen and the Governor all wrapped up together. The State of Kansas is exactly what the Star wants it to be; it won't change until the Star decides it's time." The Star lived in the same city...
...biggest merger in aviation history was abruptly called off last week. When they first planned it last year (TIME, Oct. 7), Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. and Lockheed Aircraft Corp. fully expected that each could provide just what the other needed, and together blanket the field with one mammoth company. But in last week's brief announcement, Convair's Harry Woodhead and Lockheed's Robert Gross regretfully admitted that the whole thing was "no longer feasible...