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...Spaghetti He Eats." In Rome the dissident Socialist newspaper L'Umanitá, which dislikes about equally Russian Communism and U.S. capitalism, summed up the effect of the recent Red slander blitz against the U.S. Said L'Umanit...
...more perilous than it had ever been before, Thomas Burke set out to write a history of what Londoners have done to kill time after dark for the past 600 years. Burke, who died in 1945, had been encouraged by the fact that even in London of the blitz "the Won't-Go-Home-Till-Morning spirit was never extinguished...
...fame in the '30s as an interpretative dancer: the Earl of Carnarvon, 58, on charges of adultery which he declined to contest (two years ago he failed to get a divorce on the grounds that Tilly had sailed off to the U.S. in 1940, leaving him and the blitz behind); after eight years of marriage, no children; in England...
This belated notice of the month-old bill (TIME, July 14) had no effect on what the bill's few congressional opponents called a "saccharine blitz." It was passed. The bill extended for five years the present sales quota system for all foreign and domestic producers-but with some new discriminatory twists...
...their campaign, claimed at least 200; Stassenites "claimed another 185; a bobtail of favorite sons controlled another big chunk. His opponents, assessing Dewey's trip, decided that he had blundered. Reports were coming back from politicians who were more riled than anything else by Dewey's attempted blitz. Some experts figured that Dewey had played right into the hands of Harold Stassen, who has long been trying to get Dewey out into the open. Said one G.O.P. Senator: "Poor Tom, he's such a nice fellow...