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...Roosevelt Jr. might have had the nomination, but Congressman Roosevelt is saying himself for the 1954 campaign for governor. The bosses pondered over Robert Wagner Jr., borough president of Manhattan, who had little to recommend him but the name of his crusading, pro-labor father. Carmine De Sapio, a colorless small-timer who runs what's left of Tammany Hall, was for Wagner, which meant that New York Mayor Vincent Impellitteri was automatically against him. In doubt and confusion, the Democrats chose John Cashmore, 57, the borough president of Brooklyn...
...Moscow, the Boss's son warmed up with dialectic ballyhoo for Soviet Air Forces Day. Declaring that the Russians had invented the airplane and the helicopter, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, 30, zoomed further into the wild blue yonder. Said he: "How miserable and colorless are the air shows in the capitalist countries ... On the very face of it, the bourgeois airman, who is both a bandit and a businessman, has little in common with what we call an air festival. Our airmen carry life and happiness on their wings...
...this time the hostility did not stop at the left. Winston Churchill, embarrassed and angered by the U.S. failure to consult him in advance of the air raids, made only fitful attempts to douse the diplomatic blaze, and in the main debate he pointedly took no part. Quiet, colorless Clement Attlee, no enemy of the U.S., was so worried over the growing Bevanite strength in his own camp that he dare not leave the issue to them, and solemnly led his whole party into a posture of qualified hostility to the U.S. ally. "Her Majesty's government...ought...
...basketball game of sorts, and real hot dogs, and what looks like real rain are but incidents-and not very imaginative ones-in a never really gay evening. Harold Rome's score is agreeable but commonplace; except for Comedienne Sheila Bond, the cast, though youthful, is colorless. One trouble is with the people-or with the fact that there are none. Only in an occasional phrase, or in a song called Tripping the Light Fantastic, does the show stoop to the level of mere fumbling human beings...
Died. James Wolcott Wadsworth, 74, New York's Republican Senator (1915-27), who returned to the Capitol as an upstate Congressman (1933-51), in 1940 co-authored (with Nebraska's Democratic Senator Edward Burke) the first peacetime U.S. draft law; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. A colorless public speaker, he was widely respected by both political camps in Washington as an able, intelligent legislator, with a special interest in national defense. His uncompromising opposition to women's suffrage and Prohibition helped unseat him in the Senate, but as an expert on military affairs, he felt that...