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...Lane replied, in a letter to the New York Times: "My article . . . was based on actual happenings which were known to many American press correspondents in Poland. There was no need to employ spies, even had I had the unwise desire to do so. ... I [instructed] members of my staff that they should avoid contact with the underground, for I did not wish to endanger the safety of persons not in sympathy with the Polish Government...
...leaders in a hotly competitive field, both magazines cover fashions at their source, report on what they like, and often like the same things. Both are read as much for their ads as for anything else. Both employ squads of bright, elegantly turned-out young fashion scouts, and both try to vary their pictures of blankly beautiful models with portraits of society women. Both are fawned over by publicity-hungry manufacturers. But they resent being taken for twins. Their differences are largely those that set apart two strong-minded women of ruthless, sometimes reckless taste...
Parliament's horrified Committee of Privileges promptly launched an inquiry. It was on delicate ground, for there are 46 journalists in the House. Practically all London papers employ paid M.P. contributors, some of whom sign their stuff. (Unlike the U.S. Congress, Parliament by custom permits barrister members to represent clients with political interests; every major union has M.P. officials on its payroll, and Tories and Laborites alike are on well-paying company directorates.) But Allighan's charges about bought-&-paid-for leaks were something different, and highly explosive...
...Orange Blood. Only ten years ago, on the Day of the Battle of the Boyne, Sir Basil Brooke, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, had said some pretty harsh things about a people who make up 33% of his constituents. "Many of the audience employ Catholics," he said, "but I have not one about my place." The next July 12 Sir Basil recalled: "I recommended people not to employ Roman Catholics, who are 99% disloyal." (Meanwhile, down in Eire, Taoiseach Eamon de Valera was saying: "Ulster's rejection of an all-Ireland union is an outrage which Irishmen throughout...
...House, in less than half an hour, voted yesterday to repeal 57 wartime statutes--ranging from the law empowering the President to censor communications with foreign countries, to his authority to employ $1-a-year...