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Britain had election fever. All week, there was mounting speculation about when & if Prime Minister Clement Attlee would announce the date of Britain's impending general election. On Sunday, Attlee motored from his country residence at Chequers to confer with King George at Sandringham Castle. To clear the way for the election, the King would have to dissolve the present Parliament, issue writs calling a new one into session. Barring a last-minute switch, the British general election will be held Thursday...
Arkansas' Governor Sidney McMath, 37, arrived in Manhattan to confer a special honor of his state, the title "Arkansas Traveler," on a Center Point, Ark. girl: department store Bigwig Dorothy Shaver, president of Fifth Avenue's Lord & Taylor...
Empty Cars & High Spirits. Next morning, as the presidential train clicked homeward, the President was up at 5 to confer with Chicago politicos-Boss Jake Arvey, ex-Mayor Ed Kelly, Senator Paul Douglas. Later, at Willard, Ohio, a T-shirted boy in the crowd shouted: "What do you think of Senator Taft?" Truman declined the bait. "I like him very much," said Harry Truman pleasantly...
...talking integration. In Paris, ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman had urgently warned Western Europe that it must take steps to integrate its separate economies (TIME, Nov. 7). Barely had Hoffman returned to the U.S., when Secretary of State Dean Acheson took off for Paris. For two days this week he would confer with Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's Robert Schuman on various problems of Western policy, including dismantling of German industries. But Washington let it be known that the matter of Western European unity was uppermost in the Secretary's mind...
...meantime, Valpey, Jordan, and Sebo confer outside, condensing their observations so that Valpey can give the players a quick summary before the intermission ends...