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¶ The French achieved a nervous truce, but no agreement, last week with rebellious Annamites at Saïgon. Much to the relief of colonials, a respectable show of French force was possible: the battleships Richelieu and Triomphant had arrived. But in northern Indo-China, liberated and still occupied by...
Rome's humorous weekly Cantachiaro (Chanticleer) has crowed impudently ever since liberation. It has no political ties, boasts that it is an "anti" periodical. Under youthful, clever Editor Franco Monicelli, it has flung satiric articles and slapstick cartoons at whomever and whatever it pleases, not stopping at the Italian...
Caesar Petrillo was not a graceful winner. The companies, he said, had resorted to "bitterness, injustice, trickery and reactionism which would do justice to slaveowners"; they had engaged in a "vile, indecent, malicious and filthy campaign of libel, slander and vilification." Crowed the Czar: "Honesty and fairness had now triumphed...
Spectacular Serge. By far the most spectacular collaborationist in Parisian musical circles was the famed Russian ballet dancer, Serge Lifar, whom some critics regard as the inheritor of the pink tights of the great Vaslav Nijinsky. Lifar had not only spent the days of German occupation as the toast of...
In Hollywood last week Democrat John M. Costello, no friend of union labor but an able legislator, went down to defeat in the California primaries. He was the third member of the Dies Committee to be eliminated in four weeks. Crowed a California C.I.O. newspaper: "The Dies Committee scoreboard today...