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...tinkering than that of war. Built of odds & ends of free enterprise and New Dealism, held together with charity and hope, the weird and wonderful machine wobbled on. Washington's economic handymen worked their heads off, hoping that the whole contraption could be saved from an inflation boom & bust...
...five years, while Producer Howard Hughes and film censors played put & take with certain shots in The Outlaw, Jane Russell was only a box-office bust. Last week she became a bonanza...
Little Father Lenin was having a tough time of it. In 1942, the Finsbury Borough Council had erected a statue to Russia's First Proletarian in front of the Holford Square house in which he had once lived. Since then, the dead-white bust on its red marble base has had nary a moment's peace. Time & again it has been defaced-once with black paint of such tenacity that the slyly benign features remained permanently piebald...
Then, on a gloomy midnight last December, especially irreverent and irresponsible vandals went to work on the bust with a hammer. Result: no nose, a gouged-out chin, a scar on the left cheek, a chewed-off ear. This, the London constabulary decided, was too much of a good thing. The memorial was covered with a huge black tarpaulin and three bobbies detailed to perpetual guard duty...
Last week, Tory M.P. William Shepherd rose in Commons. Asked he: "Is it not a waste of three policemen's time? Lenin lived in the house only about a fortnight and he left without paying his rent.* Cannot the Home Secretary get this bust put in an institution...