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Last week the pressures seemed to converge on Clem Attlee. Over the transatlantic phone, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell (attending the Washington and Ottawa conferences of the Big Three and NATO Council) told the Prime Minister that the dollar situation looked blacker than ever. Then came news that Nye Bevan and his party rebels were publishing a pamphlet, "Going Our Way," inciting trade unions to break with Attlee's policies. Finally Attlee announced: "I consider that the time has now come to ask the electors for a renewal of confidence in the government ... I have therefore asked...
Well Done. In Benton, Ill., Clem Cable tried to get the bees out of his eaves, lit some rags to make a smudge, burned his house to the ground...
...guilty only of bad judgment, expressed his continued confidence in him. But at week's end Chicago was ahum with investigations by Federal Internal Revenue agents, the Trotting Association, and the promise of a third one by the legislature itself. Said the Daily News's City Editor Clem Lane: "I suppose public officials will go on operating on the sordid principle that 'if it's legal, it's honest.' But at least we've been able to let the public in on what's going...
...like surgeons in public relations," explained platinum-haired Clem Whitaker, who got $100,000 a year for running the $4,500,000 campaign. "We perform the operation, and when the patient recovers we move out." Whitaker & Baxter had been working full time for A.M.A., needling doctors and public alike to fight the Truman-Ewing health scheme (TIME, Feb. 20, 1950). They were itching to get back to California and round up some new accounts...
...admits the show's leading lady, she's a party member. No, says the leading man (and Clem Archer's best friend), he's nothing of the kind. After some more questions, Clem decides that the accusations have been, at best, wild and indiscriminate. He joins a public campaign for "freedom of the air." Poor Clem; his case, and his career too, blows up when the leading lady puts the finger on the leading man as the secret party boss for radio who has been, playing Clem for a prize...