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...lobby of the Manchester Guardian's smoke-grimed Victorian building, a bust by Jacob Epstein glares down on the editorial floor, where a few stubborn oldsters still scribble in longhand amid the clacking typewriters of fresh-faced Oxonians. It is the image of Charles Prestwich Scott, the Guardian's late, greatest editor, who built a provincial Whig organ into English liberalism's bravest voice...
...reopened promptly-a statement that increased the possibility of a new wage scrimmage. Some people trembled to think what would happen if federal rent controls were dropped. And some were beginning to shift uneasily at the prospect that the booming U.S. was in for a recession, if not a bust (see BUSINESS...
Author Meets Critics (Wed. 10 p.m., Mutual). Saloon Editor Earl Wilson defends his new "book," Pike's Peek or Bust. Critics: New York's ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker, Stripteaser Gypsy Rose...
...seemingly inexhaustible consumer demand created by wartime shortages has dried up? When, in a few years, the reservoir of investment opportunity has been fully exploited, when the building boom dies from natural causes, when the consumer fever cools from surfeit or a shortage of cash, there will be a bust that will make 1929 look like a temporary recession...
Miss America 1946, decided the Atlantic City judges after a close study of the innate and acquired talents of 16 vaselike finalists, was that fair-skinned, blue-eyed brunette, the 123-lb. one with the 25½-in. waist, 35½-in. bust, 36-in. hips, 22½-in. thigh, 13½-in. calf, and 8½-in. ankle -that 21-year-old one from California, name of Marilyn Buferd. "Oh my God," said Miss Buferd, "I never expected it." New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson immediately interviewed her. Had she any foibles? "Pardon me," retorted Miss Buferd icily...