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That article, entitled "An Embar- rassment of Riches," alleged that Rich and hiswife, who was the Times' theater reporter, workedtogether to promote and hurt he chances of certainplays. Brustein said the arrangement between Richand his wife, Alex Witchel, represented aninappropriate "consolidation of power" at theTimes...
Another Afro-Asian "source of embar- rassment" for the Communists, Schwartz claimed, is the determination of these nations to be their own masters. "Communism can not see its victory as inevitable until each nation is under the control of the Communist Party, responsible to Moscow," Sohwarts said...
...shoe-button eyes twinkling and his walrus mustache abristle, Monteux bounced in the front door. He dodged around a full-sized replica of a cable car, wheeled down the main aisle between two rows of beaming debutantes. The San Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein reported he "marched embar-rassedly." Said wife Doris Monteux, 54, who does most of Pierre's talking: "Embarrassedly, my eye . . . He's just like an old circus horse. He's awfully sophisticated, but awfully innocent...
...President Roosevelt ordered an embar go on aviation gasoline to all countries outside the Western Hemisphere (chief targets: Japan, Spain). Dutifully Japanese Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi in Washington handed Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles a formal note of protest. Spain (where posters called for a return of the Philippines) protested...
...week ended, all the police had as evidence were the pushcart, some fingerprints on the abandoned car and a scuttled lobster boat which they were trying to connect with the case. In tracing the escape boats they were embar- rassed to find no less than 22 innocent Popeyes...
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