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Harder & Lower. Kamp's enthusiastic admirer, Gerald L. K. Smith, hits even harder and lower. In his The Cross & The Flag, Smith writes: "A dispatch out of London reveals that the leading Jewish paper [unnamed] of that city now admits that Eisenhower is a Jew." Smith's Patriotic Tract Society distributes scurrilous anti-Ike ammunition from a St. Louis post-office-box address. Prize offering (25 copies for $1): a photostat of a page in the 1915 Howitzer, the U.S. Military Academy yearbook, in which Cadet Dwight David Eisenhower was called "the terrible Swedish...
...word must be said about the scenery; it is simple and economical but effective, especially in the exercise room scene. The whole production staged by Emerson Boardman is fast-moving; changes of scene proceed with professional dispatch. The Idler Players will present The Women again this evening...
Caviar & Melba. Beverley began his glamorous career (in 1921) as a reporter for London's gaudy Sunday Dispatch. The aim of this journal was to supply its readers with "an astonishing array of obscure countesses, viscountesses and . . . wives of baronets, all pontificating with monotonous regularity on the problems of the hour." As many of these noble ladies were "barely literate," it was up to Beverley to invent their opinions in order to have something to report. The rest of his job was writing what the Dispatch called "caviar-and-champagne" items, e.g., MYSTERY DOCTOR DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF COUNTESS; ARAB...
...happy day for Beverley when the Dispatch dispatched him on an interview with Prima Donna Nellie Melba, to get her views on a currently newsy murder. They became good friends; she introduced him to high society, and he, in return, tried to write her autobiography for her. He found it hard sledding...
...confidence, not so much over foreign policy itself as over the way Congress has often been left out of it. During the debate, some Congressmen recalled the results of the secret Churchill-Roosevelt agreements at Yalta and Teheran. Some were still smarting from Harry Truman's dispatch of troops to Korea without formally notifying Congress. The House was reminded that Churchill had hinted that the U.S. should send troops to Suez (although both Washington and London have emphatically denied that this implied any agreement...