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...Manhattan, Gimbels was doing a good business in grand pianos and $4,000 mink coats. Cartier was having no trouble selling superexpensive jewelry. Example: a three-strand diamond necklace with matching earrings for $29,000. Capehart de luxe record players were in demand at $1,595. Many a shopper took expensive Lionel electric trains ($22.50 to $75) in preference to cheaper sets. Everywhere, luxury items vanished rapidly from store counters...
...Communists got a hard kick in the pants from voters in what had long been one of Communism's Canadian strongholds. The scene was Montreal's Cartier riding, which had elected a Communist to the Dominion House of Commons the last two times it voted. In a by-election this week, to fill a vacancy left by the imprisonment of Communist and Traitor Fred Rose, a seat in the House was won by Liberal Maurice Hartt, a self-made lawyer who once sewed buttonholes for a living...
...victory was desperately needed. It strengthened the thin Liberal majority in the House of Commons (now 127 seats against 117 for the combined Opposition). It also seemed to indicate a brightened party future. The Liberals, after three by-election defeats in a row, now had won two straight (in Cartier and in Riche-lieu-Verchères last December). In Ottawa, Liberal masterminds sighed with relief...
...Montreal police strike, said Sullivan, was "secretly financed by the Communist Party, [which] furnished $9,000." In the current Cartier by-election campaign in Montreal (to select a Member of Parliament to succeed Communist and traitor Fred Rose), "all available forces of the C.S.U. in Montreal are being thrown" behind the Communist candidate...
Died. Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne, 74, old-school Belgian Ambassador to London, bemonocled dean of the diplomatic corps of the Court of St. James's; of a heart attack; in London. A diplomat's diplomat, he loved verbal jousts with the press, once defined his job: "A good ambassador is one who carries off the pork without spilling the beans...