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...Patti Clayton, radio songstress best known for the way she peals Chiquita Banana, moved the Banana Dealers Association to acclaim her Miss Banana Royal...
Highway of Peace. The U.S. still preached the gospel of multilateralism as a "highway of peace." In Manhattan last week, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs William L. Clayton pointed out that the U.S. and Britain were pledged to get their allies to shelve the economic nationalisms that existed between the wars-excessive tariffs, quotas, embargoes, preferences, subsidies, licenses, exchange controls, clearing agreements, barter deals. But Will Clayton failed to say that the U.S.-British declaration of last December is as far as ever from implementation. In December Clayton had said that the 16 "nuclear nations...
...Lamps of Peru. Churning up the Amazon from Iquitos in his double-decked river boat Lucrecia last week was Ganso Azul manager Edgar Clayton. As usual, he was looking for new business. He tied the Lucre da up to mudbanks by thatch-roofed Campa Indian villages, talked with mestizo river merchants about setting up new distribution centers...
With the river valley his only market, Clayton first floated oil drums downstream to Iquitos as rafts tied together with vines and buoyed by balsa logs. Later he got barges, now has river tankers. During the war he sold gasoline, kerosene and fuel oil as far down the river as Manaus...
...hard-hitting owner-editor of the Christian Century had a lot on his mind. Charles Clayton Morrison decided to write a series of articles on the challenging theme, "Can Protestantism Win America?"* This week, in the second installment, came a startling if partial answer: "Protestantism has given no convincing evidence that, in its present state, it is able to . . . awaken a vital response to the realities of the Christian gospel...