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...TIME indeed guessed wrong as to Cinemogul Skouras' intentions, thanks him for setting the record straight on Forever Amber's "clean...
...visitors boast no less than five regulars who are hitting above .290, while the Varsity's only .300 hitter is Walt Coulson, whose average is .345. For Cornell, clean-up hitter Frank McArthur's average is .409, Bill Arrison is at .400, John Cordes .389, Lou Daukas .304, and John Skawski...
Died. Helen Manice Alexander, 74, blueblooded benefactress of needy musicians, Manhattan clean-up campaigner extraordinary; after a fall; in Baltimore. She introduced an improved chewing-gum scraper for street cleaners (by her 1938 count, there were 1,250,000 wads stuck to Broadway between 42nd and soth), once ran a sidewalk-scrubbing contest in Times Square...
William Randolph Hearst wants his papers run his way. Instead, Lou Ruppel swung out on his own, started a civic clean-up campaign which blasted Chicago as a "dirty shirt town." The Chief summoned Ruppel, ordered him to tone it down. When Ruppel played up Ernie Pyle's death, he was dressed down for overpublicizing "our rival" (Pyle wrote for Scripps-Howard), even though the rival was dead. And when Ruppel tossed out Hearst's dearly beloved top-of-the-page red headlines, oldtime Hearstling Robert Wiley was rushed to Chicago to "breathe more Hearst into the paper...
Grade A Restitution. In his cheap little flat above a saloon in suburban Floral Park, L.I., "grey, 57-year-old Bertram Campbell happily posed for pictures with his happy family. Bertram Campbell was not ready to forgive everything. Said he: "It was Mr. Dewey's big clean-up campaign. All he wanted was a record of convictions...