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...Palaces. The pilots were blond, boyish Clifford Evans, 27, an ex-A.A.F. pilot, and stubby, pot-bellied George Truman*, 39, a veteran flying instructor. Last summer they wangled two used Super Cruiser airframes from Piper Aircraft, engines from Lycoming, Gyrosyn compasses from Sperry and radio, equipment from Bendix. They ripped out the passenger seat behind the pilot's seat and installed 100-gallon tanks, packed in a few charts, radio spares, a can of dope (i.e., glue) for repairing the wing fabric, one good suit and a white shirt apiece. Early in August, they kissed their wives goodbye...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Prelude and Allegro by Couperin-Milhaud; Krenek's Symphony No. 4; Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor. Clifford Curzon at the piano, Dimitri Mitropoulos on the podium...
...Clark Clifford had talked to Steelman, who talked to Secretary of Commerce Harriman and Economist Edwin Nourse. Steelman, with economists, retired behind the closed door. An Administration official sighed: "I'm afraid the President went...
...first time he had mentioned "police state," Clark Clifford, his chief speechwriter, who was sitting behind him, had visibly stiffened. One big part of Democratic campaign strategy was sure to be an attempt to blame high prices on the Republicans, to insist that the G.O.P. had sent them sky-high by scuttling OPA. And here was the President, head of the Democratic Party, damning all controls as tools of dictatorship. It might well turn out to be the political boner of the year...
...witnesses told a similar story. Jack L. Warner, live wire of the Warner brothers, ticked off a list of scriptwriters he said he had refused to rehire because they were "suspected." Trumbo and Lawson heard themselves named again. Others in Warner's little Red book: Ring Lardner Jr., Clifford Odets, Gordon Kahn, Howard Koch. Paunchy Louis B. Mayer, boss...