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...press. A day after the beginning of the Paris strike, the president of the Bakers Syndicate called a meeting of his colleagues and proposed that they all turn out a small amount of bread for distribution by the police. From the audience a baker snouted back, "Let 'em eat biscotte." By week's end, however, the bakers cooled down and their ovens began heating up again. Calling off the strike in Paris, the Bakers Syndicate explained: "We think that the Parisian population, which perhaps can endure a temporary annoyance, should not suffer a persistent lack of bread...
...Hancock Hall were the faces of Adlai, Estes, Kennedy, and Foster Furcolo. The picture of the main speaker was a little gray and folded at the corners, but the crowd of some 1,500 was undismayed--they had come to hear Harry, and they hoped, to hear Harry "give 'em hell." At 8 p.m. all hell seemed to break loose, but it turned out to be the championship band from Dorchester's St. Williams...
...source of world news. Said a technician on the Mid-Canada Warning Line, who gets his copy of the magazine by helicopter: "There's a scramble when TIME comes in-and all along the line on the way in other guys have been reading it. Some of 'em cut out stories they like, and that's the worst part. I'll say this, though-it may arrive in tatters but it arrives...
...Felicia Farr, "I didn't know Comanches kissed like this!" She is all alone on a butte with Richard Widmark, a renegade white raised by Indians, who promptly introduces her to some even more interesting Comanche customs. "Girls and ponies both," Widmark muses. "The younger you break 'em in the better . . . You been broke in yet?" Felicia says no, but it's obvious she'd like to be, especially after he tells her about a tepee lie has seen that is all of 20 feet across. But before they can move in, there...
Moving on to Washington at week's end to lash out at Dwight D. Eisenhower and hole up for consultations with Old Crony Harry Vaughan, Truman got to talking about his place in the Democratic campaign. "I've told 'em not to send me any place where I could do them any harm," he said. New Jersey's Democratic U.S. Representative T. James Tumulty thought he knew just the place. "Send him," he telegraphed Adlai Stevenson, "on a slow boat to China...